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Overview

Andrew Sturdy is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, alongside Social Sciences. The subfields that characterize their work include Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their research topics focus on various aspects of management and organizational studies, public policy and administration research, public procurement and policy, as well as subjects intersecting political and economic history of the UK and US, housing finance and neoliberalism, employment and welfare studies, and public-private partnership projects.

Frequent coauthors associated with Andrew Sturdy's research include Ian Kirkpatrick, Gianluca Veronesi, Nuria Reguera, Antonio Blanco-Oliver, and Anne Vogelpohl.

Publication venues where Andrew Sturdy has contributed work include Management Consulting Journal, Public Administration, Critical Policy Studies, Public Administration Review, and the German Journal of Human Resource Management Zeitschrift für Personalforschung.

Highlighted recent publications authored or coauthored by Andrew Sturdy are:

  • The management consultancy effect: Demand inflation and its consequences in the sourcing of external knowledge, 2020, Public Administration
  • Governing public sector use of external management consultancy-beyond client procurement and consultant professionalization, 2024, Public Money & Management

Other notable papers within the broader collaborative network include:

  • Pandemic consulting. How private consultants leverage public crisis management, 2022, Critical Policy Studies
  • Beyond hollowing out: Public sector managers and the use of external management consultants, 2023, Public Administration Review
  • Accentuating dirty work: Coping with psychological taint in elite management consulting, 2021, German Journal of Human Resource Management Zeitschrift für Personalforschung

Best Publications

  • Within and beyond communities of practice : making sense of learning through participation, identity and practice.

    Karen Handley;Andrew Sturdy;Robin Fincham;Timothy Adrian Robert Clark

  • The Consultancy Process — An Insecure Business?†

    Andrew Sturdy

  • 'Being yourself' in the electronic sweatshop: New forms of normative control

    Peter Fleming;Andrew Sturdy

  • “Just be yourself!”: Towards neo‐normative control in organisations?

    Peter Fleming;Andrew Sturdy

  • The Adoption of Management Ideas and Practices: Theoretical Perspectives and Possibilities

    Andrew Sturdy

  • Guess who's coming to dinner? Structures and uses of liminality in strategic management consultancy

    Andrew Sturdy;Mirela Schwarz;Andre Spicer

  • Beneath and Beyond Organizational Change Management: Exploring Alternatives

    Andrew Sturdy;Christopher Grey

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

    Christopher Wright;Andrew J Sturdy;Nick Wylie

  • Researching Situated Learning Participation, Identity and Practices in Client—Consultant Relationships

    Karen Handley;Timothy Adrian Robert Clark;Robin Fincham;Andrew Sturdy

  • The Emotions of Control: A Qualitative Exploration of Environmental Regulation:

    Stephen Fineman;Andrew Sturdy

  • Knowing the Unknowable? A Discussion of Methodological and Theoretical Issues in Emotion Research and Organizational Studies

    Andrew Sturdy

  • Customer Care in a Consumer Society: Smiling and Sometimes Meaning it?

    Andrew Sturdy

  • Consultancy's Consequences? A Critical Assessment of Management Consultancy's Impact on Management

    Andrew J Sturdy

  • Beyond Organizational Change: Structure, Discourse and Power in UK Financial Services

    Glenn Morgan;Andrew Sturdy

  • Management Consultancy: Boundaries and Knowledge in Action

    Andrew Sturdy;Karen Handley;Timothy Adrian Robert Clark;Robin Fincham

  • Between Innovation and Legitimation – Boundaries and Knowledge Flow in Management Consultancy

    Andrew Sturdy;Timothy Adrian Robert Clark;Robin Fincham;Karen Handley

  • Constructing Global Firms? National, Transnational and Neocolonial Effects in International Management Consultancies:

    Mehdi Boussebaa;Glenn Morgan;Andrew Sturdy

  • Management as a (Self) Confidence Trick: Management Ideas, Education and Identity Work:

    Andrew Sturdy;Michael Brocklehurst;Diana Winstanley;Margaret Littlejohns

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

    Mats Alvesson;Dan Kärreman;Andrew Sturdy;Karen Handley

  • The Consumer Rules

    David Knights;Andrew Sturdy;Glenn Morgan

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Wright
Christopher Wright University of Sydney
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan University of Bristol
Christopher Grey
Christopher Grey Royal Holloway University of London
Peter Fleming
Peter Fleming University of Technology Sydney
David Knights
David Knights Lancaster University
Trish Reay
Trish Reay University of Alberta
Yiannis Gabriel
Yiannis Gabriel University of Bath
Graeme Currie
Graeme Currie University of Warwick
Talya N. Bauer
Talya N. Bauer Portland State University
Dean Tjosvold
Dean Tjosvold Lingnan University

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