Professor Andrew J Sturdy

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• 2023

  Beyond hollowing out: Public sector managers and the use of external management consultants

  Kirkpatrick, I., Sturdy, A. J., Alvarado, N. R. & Veronesi, G., 5 Feb 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Administration Review. 83, 3, p. 537-551 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

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  • Management 100%
  • Consultant 83%
  • Consultation 83%
  • Public Sector 50%
  • Managers 50%
• 2022

  In praise of boredom at work

  Noury, L., Ahuja, S., Parker, M., Sturdy, A. J. & Tyler, M., 14 Sep 2022, In: Organization. 29, 5, p. 791-805 15 p.

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  • Boredom 100%
  • Work 60%
  • Experience 60%
  • Research 40%
  • Literature 40%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  21 Downloads (Pure)

• Pandemic Consulting: How Private Consultants Leverage Public Crisis Management

  Vogelpohl, A., Hurl, C., Howard, M., Marciano, R., Purandare, U. & Sturdy, A. J., 1 Aug 2022, In: Critical Policy Studies. 16, 3, p. 371-381 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Governance 100%
  • Government 100%
  • Democracy 50%
  • Interest 50%
  • Service Industries 50%
• 2021

  Accentuating dirty work: Coping with psychological taint in elite management consulting

  Bouwmeester, O., Versteeg, B., Sturdy, A. J. & van Bommel, K., 5 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: German Journal of Human Resource Management.

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  • Work 100%
  • Coping 85%
  • Tactics 28%
  • Ambiguity 28%
  • Guides 14%
  49 Downloads (Pure)

• Acquiring knowledge through management consultancy: A national culture perspective

  O'Mahoney, J., Sturdy, A. J. & Galazka, A., 22 Sep 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Management and Organization.

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  • Knowledge 100%
  • Indexes 100%
  • Research 50%
  • Expenditure 50%
  • Quantitative 50%
  128 Downloads (Pure)

• The management consultancy effect: Demand inflation and its consequences in the sourcing of external knowledge

  Sturdy, A. J., Kirkpatrick, I., Alvarado, N. R., Blanco-Oliver, A. & Veronesi, G., 2 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Public Administration. 19 p.

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  • Inflation 100%
  • Knowledge 66%
  • Demand 66%
  • Service Industries 50%
  • Management 50%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  797 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Identities in translation: Management concepts as means and outcomes of identity work

  van Grinsven, M., Sturdy, A. & Heusinkveld, S., 1 Jun 2020, In: Organization Studies. 41, 6, p. 873-897 25 p.

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  • Conceptualization 100%
  • Management 50%
  • Translation 50%
  • Research 33%
  • Change 33%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

  163 Downloads (Pure)

• Ideology in management studies

  Seeck, H., Sturdy, A., Boncori, A-L. & Fougère, M., 14 Jan 2020, In: International Journal of Management Reviews. 22, 1, p. 53-74 22 p.

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  • Ideologies 100%
  • Management 83%
  • Conceptualization 50%
  • Legitimation 33%
  • Books 16%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  133 Downloads (Pure)

• Negotiating Imitation: Examining the Interactions of Consultants and Clients to Understand Institutionalization as Translation

  Gill, M., McGivern, G., Sturdy, A., Pereira, S., Gill, D. & Dopson, S., 9 Jul 2020, In: British Journal of Management. 31, 3, p. 470-486 17 p.

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  • Practice 100%
  • Translation 85%
  • Institutionalization 57%
  • Research 28%
  • Interaction 28%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  50 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  The impact of management consultants on public service efficiency

  Kirkpatrick, I., Sturdy, A., Reguera Alvarado, N., Blanco-Oliver, A. & Veronesi, G., 30 Jan 2019, In: Policy and Politics. 47, 1, p. 77-95 19 p.

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  • Management 100%
  • Efficiency 66%
  • Consultant 66%
  • Public Sector 66%
  • Market Concentration 33%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

  1044 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Explaining national variation in the use of management consulting knowledge: A framework

  Sturdy, A. & O'Mahoney, J., 1 Nov 2018, In: Management Learning. 49, 5, p. 537-558 21 p.

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  • Knowledge 100%
  • Management 75%
  • Literature 50%
  • Economy 25%
  • Knowledge Management 25%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  508 Downloads (Pure)

• Professionals with borders: The relationship between mobility and transnationalism in global firms

  Spence, C., Sturdy, A. & Carter, C., 1 May 2018, In: Geoforum. 91, p. 235-244 10 p.

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  • Professional Personnel 100%
  • Mobility 37%
  • Border 37%
  • Organizations 25%
  • Occupational Career 25%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  65 Downloads (Pure)

• Professions and (new) management occupations as a contested terrain: Redefining jurisdictional claims

  Heusinkveld, S., Gabbioneta, C., Werr, A. & Sturdy, A., Oct 2018, In: Journal of Professions and Organization. 5, 3, p. 248-261 14 p., joy015.

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  • Management 100%
  • Professional Personnel 33%
  • Organizations 33%
  • Research 33%
  • Interaction 33%
  24 Citations (Scopus)

  69 Downloads (Pure)

• Promoting solutions and co-constructing problems: Management consultancy and instrument constituencies?

  Sturdy, A., 1 Jan 2018, In: Policy and Society. 37, 1, p. 74-89 15 p.

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  • Problem 100%
  • Stakeholders 100%
  • Devices 100%
  • Policy 75%
  • Model 62%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

  681 Downloads (Pure)

• Structuring Collective Change Agency Internally: Transformers, Enforcers, Specialists and Independents

  Wylie, N. & Sturdy, A., Apr 2018, In: Employee Relations. 40, 2, p. 313-328 16 p.

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  • Responsibility 50%
  • Case study research 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  298 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Managers as consultants: The hybridity and tensions of neo-bureaucratic management

  Sturdy, A. J., Wright, C. & Wylie, N., 1 Mar 2016, In: Organization. 23, 2, p. 184-205 22 p.

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  • Change 100%
  • Management 50%
  • Bureaucracy 25%
  • Practice 16%
  • Organizations 16%
  32 Citations (Scopus)

  1003 Downloads (Pure)

• Power and the diffusion of management ideas: The Case of McKinsey & Co.

  O'Mahoney, J. & Sturdy, A. J., 1 Jul 2016, In: Management Learning. 47, 3, p. 247-265 19 p.

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  • Shape 100%
  • Management 85%
  • Diffusion 85%
  • Investigation 28%
  • Consultancy 28%
  59 Citations (Scopus)

  1421 Downloads (Pure)
• 2014

  Change agency in occupational context: lessons for HRM

  Wylie, N., Sturdy, A. & Wright, C., 1 Jan 2014, In: Human Resource Management Journal. 24, 1, p. 95-110 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Change 100%
  • Organizations 60%
  • Personnel Management 60%
  • Ambiguity 40%
  • Vulnerability 40%
  11 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  Learning from the world? Horizontal knowledge flows and geopolitics in professional service multinationals

  Boussebaa, M., Sturdy, A. & Morgan, G., 12 Sep 2013, In: International Journal of Human Resource Management. 25, 9, p. 1227-1242 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Power relations 33%
  25 Citations (Scopus)

• Management consultancy and organizational uncertainty: The case of internal consultancy

  Sturdy, A. J., Wylie, N. & Wright, C., 2013, In: International Studies of Management and Organization. 43, 3, p. 58-73

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  • Actors 100%
  • Management 100%
  • Understanding 50%
  • Authors 50%
  • Interviews 50%
• 2012

  Constructing global firms? National, transnational and postcolonial effects in international management consultancies

  Boussebaa, M., Morgan, G. & Sturdy, A. J., Apr 2012, In: Organization Studies. 33, 4, p. 465 - 486 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Transnational Corporation 100%
  • Logic 50%
  • Multinational Firm 50%
  • Firm Behavior 50%
  • Inequality 50%
  90 Citations (Scopus)

• Management innovation through standardization: Consultants as standardizers of organizational practice

  Wright, C., Sturdy, AJ. & Wylie, N., 2012, In: Research Policy. 41, 3, p. 652 - 662 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Innovation Management 100%
  • Consultants 80%
  • Standardization 60%
  • Organizations 40%
  • Innovation 40%
  107 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  "Being Yourself" in the Electronic Sweatshop: New Forms of Normative Control

  Fleming, P. & Sturdy, AJ., Feb 2011, In: Human Relations. 64, 2, p. 177 - 200 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  179 Citations (Scopus)

• Consultancy’s consequences? A critical assessment of management consultancy’s impact on management

  Sturdy, AJ., 2011, In: British Journal of Management. 22, 3, p. 517 - 530

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Management 100%
  • Consultancy 77%
  • Impact 44%
  • Context 22%
  • Boundary 22%
  93 Citations (Scopus)

• The active client: The boundary-spanning roles of internal consultants as gatekeepers, brokers and partners of their external counterparts

  Sturdy, AJ. & Wright, C., 2011, In: Management Learning. 42, 5, p. 485 - 503

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  • Roles 100%
  • Organizational Boundary 66%
  • Knowledge Management 33%
  • Static Dimension 33%
  • Knowledge Flows 33%
  67 Citations (Scopus)

• The co-consumption of management ideas and practices

  Heusinkveld, S., Sturdy, AJ. & Werr, A., 2011, In: Management Learning. 42, 2, p. 1 - 9

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  30 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  A Chaos that Worked: Organizing Bletchley Park

  Grey, C. & Sturdy, AJ., 2010, In: Public Policy and Administration. 25, 1, p. 47 - 66

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Management - the work that dares not speak its name

  Brocklehurst, M., Grey, C. & Sturdy, AJ., 2010, In: Management Learning. 41, 1, p. 7 - 19

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  26 Citations (Scopus)
• 2009

  Between Innovation and Legitimation - Boundaries and Knowledge Flow in Management

  Sturdy, AJ., Clark, T., Fincham, R. & Handley, K., Sep 2009, In: Organization. 16, p. 627 - 653 7 p., issue 5.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  92 Citations (Scopus)

• Historicising Knowledge-Intensive Organizations: The Case of Bletchley Park

  Grey, C. & Sturdy, AJ., 2009, In: Management and Organizational History. 4, 2, p. 131 - 150

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  11 Citations (Scopus)

• Just Be Yourself - Towards Neo-Normative Control in Organisations

  Fleming, P. & Sturdy, AJ., Jun 2009, In: Employee Relations. 31, 6, p. 569 - 583 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  174 Citations (Scopus)

• Popular Critiques of Consultancy and a Politics of Management Learning

  Sturdy, AJ., Sep 2009, In: Management Learning. 40, p. 457 - 463 7 p., issue 4.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  30 Citations (Scopus)

• The client in management consultancy research: Mapping the territory

  Sturdy, AJ., Werr, A. & Buono, A., Sep 2009, In: Scandinavian Journal of Management. 25, p. 247 - 252 6 p., issue 3.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  30 Citations (Scopus)

• Unpacking the client(s): Constructions, positions and client–consultant dynamics

  Alvesson, M., Karreman, D., Sturdy, AJ. & Handley, K., Jul 2009, In: Scandinavian Journal of Management. 25, p. 253 - 263 11 p., issue 3.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  59 Citations (Scopus)
• 2008

  A consulting diaspora? Enterprising selves as agents of enterprise

  Sturdy, AJ. & Wright, C., 2008, In: Organization. 15, 3, p. 427 - 444

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  51 Citations (Scopus)

• Configuring expert knowledge: the consultant as sector specialist

  Fincham, R., Clark, T., Handley, K. & Sturdy, AJ., Nov 2008, In: Journal of Organizational Behavior. 29, 8, p. 1145 - 1160 16 p., issue 8.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  37 Citations (Scopus)

• Food, work and organization

  Briner, R. B. & Sturdy, AJ., Jul 2008, In: Human Relations. 61, p. 907 - 912 6 p., issue 7.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• The 1942 Reorganization of the Government Code and Cypher School

  Grey, C. & Sturdy, AJ., Oct 2008, In: Cryptologia. 32, p. 311 - 333 23 p., Issue 4.

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  11 Citations (Scopus)