Abstract
This book is the result of a casual encounter between the two of us in early 2002. Both of us had done research on management consulting for some time, although from rather different perspectives, and realized at the same time that our interests had driven us towards the same empirical phenomenon - how to purchase management consulting services and other Management Advice Services. In late 2002, we gathered a group of colleagues from various disciplines including management, marketing, accounting, sociology, and social anthropology, from the Stockholm School of Economics, SCORE, Uppsala University, the School of Economics and Commercial Law at Göteborg University and the National Institute of Working Life. In one way or another, all of those invited had dealt with the dilemmas organizations face when forced to bring in experts on managements matters from external providers.