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Hello.
My name is Mehdi Boussebaa.
I am an Associate Professor
of Organization Studies
based at the University
of Bath in the UK.
In this talk
I shall discuss the ways
in which global management
consulting firms
organize their growing
international operations,
and also some of the challenges
that they face in the process.
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Global management consultancies
or simply GMCs,
for the sake of simplicity,
have become major
international corporate players.
They offer
a wide range of services
in a variety
of different industries
and on a worldwide basis.
And their clients
include government institutions,
non-profits, and importantly,
multinational corporations
which are
a major source of revenue
and prestige for the firms,
as you can imagine.
Now typical examples
are prestigious firms
such as McKinsey and Co,
Bain and Co,
and Boston Consulting Group.
Or the consulting divisions
of the major
big four accountancies,
Deloitte, KPMG, EY, and PWC.
And, of course, the leading
providers of consulting,
technology
and outsourcing services
such as Accenture,
Capgemini, and IBM.
Most of these firms
are American by origin
but the few are European,
so Capgemini from France,
for instance,
or Asian increasingly.
Now what's interesting
about these firms
is that they are
all highly internationalized.
They employ
thousands of professionals
in offices dotted
all around the world.
Some of them are
even more internationalized
than the major
multinational corporations
which they actually serve.
