From demand-side to supply-side regulation of government consultants: Recent trends in three OECD countries

Failed Professionalization and Management Consultancy’s Image Problem - a UK Perspective

“…In this context characterised by a lack of legitimacy, the question of why management consultancy did not professionalize becomes particularly relevant. Why has so little progress been made to regulate the supply side of management consultancy (Zaman et al, 2024)? In what follows we address this question of failed professionalism by providing an overview of a research project we recently published in the journal: Journal of Professions and Organisation (for the full study please refer to Kirkpatrick et al, 2023b; see also Collinson and Butler, 2020 for a related account).…”