Critical reflection

2- how consultants (“friendly outsiders”) see, conceptualise and participate in change
3- What role does identity play in change?
4- Our personal and professional identities also influence our level of agency in organisational matters • What are we? • How do use identity work to construct the appropriate form of ourselves?

Explain how The concept of liminality offers an interesting lens…especially for consulting identities?

10- Critique epistemological perspectives
11- Which research tradition is best suited to thinking about consulting?*
An “economics” lens offers a predominantly “positivistic” perspective • A “sociology” lens encourages us to move towards an “interpretivist” analysis of what we see

Transaction cost economics
Signalling theory
Embeddedness theory
Sociological neo-institutionalism

12- Based on this presentation and your own research and experience, develop arguments for and against the theories reviewed today • Using your own experience, knowledge and intuition, develop three arguments for and against each of these theories
Transaction cost economics
Signalling theory
Embeddedness theory
Sociological neo-institutionalism

Strengths of the theory in the analysis of consulting
Weaknesses of the theory in the analysis of consulting
Transaction cost economics VS Signalling theory
Embeddedness theory VS Sociological neo-institutionalism