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Management Consulting’s Black Holes: A Question of Time and Space Cover

Management Consulting’s Black Holes: A Question of Time and Space

By: Cyril Kirwan  
Open Access
|Feb 2024

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Language: English
Page range: 25 - 36
Published on: Feb 2, 2024
Published by: FMR Research Ltd
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