The feminine in management consulting :

Marsh, Sheila, 1954-

The feminine in management consulting : power, emotion and values in consulting interactions / Sheila Marsh. - Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - xiii, 318 p. : ill., plans ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-312) and index.

Part I. Consulting : exploring the terrain --
Ch. 1. Studying consulting from the inside : what do I mean by consulting and how did I research it? --
Ch. 2. Consultants, confidantes and consorts : a genealogy of consulting and advice-giving to organisational leaders --
Ch. 3. Images of consulting : what currently shapes how we see consulting and how it works? --
Ch. 4. Consulting as a discursive practice -- Part II. Discourse analysis of consulting interactions --
Ch. 5. Researching consulting interactions : from process ontology to critical discourse analysis --
Ch. 6. Women consultants in action : critical discourse analysis of 'live' consulting interaction --
Ch. 7. Consultants reflecting on their work : critical discourse analysis of reflective material -- Part III. Making sense --
Ch. 8. What is going on in consulting interactions? : exploring meta-themes of power, emotion and values --
Ch. 9. Femininities and consulting : (re- )animating a 'feminine' discourse of consulting --
Ch. 10. Toward a 'critical consulting' practice : the contribution of a 'feminine' discourse of consulting.

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