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the book focuses on the international consulting market, how they relate to the sectors that interact in more direct ways with the consulting universe; especially the ranks of company managers and sectors related to the production and dissemination of organizational concepts and practices .In the second part, I focus on the changes in business and managerial space during the period. The set functions as a means to visualize the activities of management ranks facing new organizational shapes and demands.As another building block in constructing the study, it discusses the forms and mechanisms for disseminating management ideas and the different sectors involved in the process, focusing on the actions of consulting firms and their connection to other sectors in the field of selling of organizational innovations, especially the business press. The choice intends tocontribute to understanding the relationship between businesses and consultants, starting with the issue of dissemination new managerial references and the extending of legitimation circuits.

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Associete professor at Federal University of Sao Carlos Brazil, Visiting scholar in Sociology at the University of California Berkeley- USA and pos-doctorate at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-Fr, has experience in Economic Sociology, acting mainly in the following subjects: organizational dynamics, intermediries and consulting.

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