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Editors

Chris Hurl and Anne Vogelpohl

Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era

Public Policy, Private Expertise

1st ed. 2021

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Editors

Chris Hurl

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Anne Vogelpohl

Department of Social Work, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

ISBN 978-3-030-72127-5 e-ISBN 978-3-030-72128-2

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72128-2

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Contents

Chris Hurl and Anne Vogelpohl

Strategies and Practices of Professional Service Firms

Matthias Kipping

Svenja Keele

Advising Cities

Uttara Purandare

Daria Volkova

Eugene McCann and Lise Mahieus

Finance and Financialization

Janet Roitman

Chris Hurl

Sebastian Mller

Privatization and Public Private Partnerships

Nicholas Hildyard

Jean Shaoul

Laura Valentukeviciute

Professional Service Firms and Administration: Entrenching Private Expertise

Mike Raco

Neha Sami and Shriya Anand

Regulating Relationships

Orly Linovski

Andrew Sturdy

List of Figures

Camouflaged Privatization: The Influence of the Fratzscher Commission and PricewaterhouseCoopers on Berlins Schools

Hegemonic Privatization and Its Discontents: Reflections on the Rise and Limitations of the Parastate and Local Governance Reform in England

Conflicting Interests: Professional Planning Practice in Publicly Traded Firms

List of Tables

America First:How Consultants Got into the Public Sector

Conflicting Interests: Professional Planning Practice in Publicly Traded Firms

The Governance of Management Consultancy Use: Practices, Problems, and Possibilities

Notes on Contributors

Shriya Anand

is a faculty member at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, teaching on topics related to urban economic development and quantitative research methods. She anchors the Urban Informatics Lab at IIHS, which analyzes, communicates and disseminates data and information related to Indias urbanization. Her research at IIHS is primarily centered on the Indian urban economy and economic geography, with a particular focus on the role of employment in urban development and poverty reduction. She holds a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and a Masters in Mathematics from Cambridge University, UK.

Nicholas Hildyard

works with The Corner House, a UK solidarity and mutual learning group. He is the author of Licensed Larceny: Infrastructure, Financial Extraction and the Global South (Manchester University Press, 2016), Extreme Infrastructure: Infrastructure Corridors in Context (Counterbalance, 2017) and More than Bricks and Mortar: Infrastructure-as-asset-classFinancing development or developing finance? (Corner House Research, 2012).

Chris Hurl

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montral, Quebec, Canada. His research, exploring urban governance, state formation, and the politics of the public sector in Canada, has appeared in Environment and Planning A, Studies in Political Economy, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Labour/Le Travail, and the Journal of Canadian Studies. He is the co-editor of Corporatizing Canada (Between the Lines, 2018).

Svenja Keele

is a human geographer researching the ways in which government, business and expertise interact to govern complex environmental problems, with a particular interest in the political economies and the spatial effects of these interactions. Her work on climate adaptation has examined the outsourcing of policy decisions and the influence of corporate expertise. Her current work investigates the commercialization of climate intelligence services, the creation of new markets for urban resilience and the drivers of urban growth that produce maladaptive land use change. Dr. Keele has also worked professionally in consulting and government in Australia and the UK.

Matthias Kipping

is a Professor of Policy and Richard E. Waugh Chair in Business History at the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada. He has published widely on the consulting industry, its evolution and role, including co-editing (with T. Clark) The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting (Oxford University Press, 2012) and co-authoring (with L. Engwall and B. sdiken) Defining Management: Business Schools, Consultants, Media (Routledge, 2016). He is currently researching the expansion of consulting to and from India and working on a monograph that tries to summarize the overall history of the industry.

Orly Linovski

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City Planning at the University of Manitoba. Her research and teaching are motivated by a concern with equity in planning and design, through the lens of professional practice. Her current research focuses on two main areas: the changing nature of professional practice in the private sector, and the integration of transportation equity in planning processes. Previously, she worked as a planner at the municipal and provincial levels.

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