This paper reviews the past 28 years of scholarship on management consulting to synthesize the field and establish more broadly its contribution to management research. Through a systematic review of 219 articles, we identify three core conceptual themes – knowledge, identity, and power – that have dominated the literature to date. Through a thematic inductive analysis of a subsection of articles, we then investigate how these themes have been defined, used, and linked. This allows us to uncover and problematize the relationships between these themes. In making explicit underlying theoretical assumptions and relationships between knowledge, identity, and power, we induce a unique framework that can guide and support future studies, instigate metaparadigmatic dialogue, and thus help consolidate the field.

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管理咨询：迈向知识，身份和权力的整合框架

本文回顾了过去28年有关管理咨询的奖学金，以综合该领域并更广泛地确定其对管理研究的贡献。通过对219篇文章的系统回顾，我们确定了迄今为止主导文献的三个核心概念主题-知识，身份和力量。通过对文章小节的主题归纳分析，我们然后研究如何定义，使用和链接这些主题。这使我们能够发现这些主题之间的关系并对其提出问题。在做出明确的基本理论假设以及知识，身份和权力之间的关系时，我们引入了一个独特的框架，该框架可以指导和支持未来的研究，进行超范式对话，从而帮助巩固该领域。