Unternehmensberatungen in der Politikberatung

Institutional entrepreneurship: a literature review and analysis of the maturing consulting field

“…Within new public management initiatives, management consultancies are increasingly seconding members to government and policy-making committees (Bill & Falk, 2006;Faust, 1998). A prominent example in Germany is the so-called "Hartz Committee" on labor market reform, to which McKinsey and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants seconded senior members.…”

Consulting completed: temporal aspects of expertise in urban development during times of fast policies

“…While sociologist Resch (2005) explains this through privatization and greater (self-imposed) pressure for political reform, former undersecretary of the German Federal Department for Urban Development Sinz (2011) identifies the increase with a need for faster political answers. The consultants Bill and Falk (2006), however, emphasize new types of initializing business contacts and customer acquisition within the consulting business. Very different interests are thus interwoven in a policy consulting project.…”

Management Consultancies as Institutional Agents: Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Institutional Capital

“…Within New Public Management initiatives, management consultancies are increasingly seconding members to government and policy-making committees (Bill & Falk, 2006;Faust, 1998 (Falk, Rehfeld, Römmele, & Thunert, 2006, 292).…”

“…There is clear evidence that in the past consultancy firms have successfully influenced the value systems not only of their clients, but also of society at large, so that the support services they provide to management teams and policy makers have become taken for granted (Falk et al, 2006;Faust, 1998;McKenna, 2006;Wimmer, 1992). These observations resonate strongly with Meyer and Rowan's (1977) argument that the modernization of society makes more areas of society accessible to the rules of rationality.…”