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CMCE Award for Oxford Saïd Research

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Dr Michael Gill and Professor Sue Dopson have been honoured by the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence.

The Centre for Management Consulting Excellence (CMCE) aims to share academic research and practitioner experience to the benefit of the consulting community.

Now in its third year, the CMCE’s Research Awards is the world’s only awards scheme that recognises those who seek to better understand management consultancy through academic research. Drawing on papers published in English over the last two years, the awards celebrate research excellence in the following areas:

  • Client relationships
  • The changing environment for the consultant
  • Technology and consulting.

Michael and Sue’s paper ‘Negotiating Imitation: Examining the Interactions of Consultants and Clients to Understand Institutionalization as Translation’ has won in the Client relationships category. The research, published in the British Journal of Management, seeks to uncover the ways in which key players within an organisation affect the translation of management practices.

On behalf of the whole research team, I am delighted that Negotiating Imitation has won the Client Relationships Research Award from the CMCE.

Michael Gill

Associate Professor in Organisation Studies

On receiving the award, Michael said: ‘On behalf of the whole research team, I am delighted that Negotiating Imitation has won the Client Relationships Research Award from the CMCE. Our research reveals the social processes through which clients and consultants translate ‘best practices' to make them fit specific contexts.'

'Our study also demonstrates how many peripheral practices accompany best practices and are also imported into client organizations, often unnoticed. We hope our study spurs more research on how social interactions, between consultants and clients, can influence various organizational outcomes.’

Read more about Sue and Michael’s research on their profiles.