Policy & Politics February 2018
- This paper reports one of the first quantitative evaluations of the impact of consulting advice on efficiency of public sector organisations using an extensive dataset covering English NHS acute care hospital trusts over a four-year period.
- The findings show a significantly positive relationship between consulting expenditure and organisational inefficiency.
- These results lend support to critical accounts of management consulting, highlighting the need for organisations to be circumspect in deciding whether and how to use these services.
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