ABSTRACT
In 1951 a specialist team of the Anglo-American Productivity Council visited the United States to study the provision of management education. In 1986 the National Economic Development Council, the Manpower Commission and the British Institute of Management together sponsored research into management education and training. The purpose of the research was to examine what was going on within competitor countries as a comparator with the provision of management education and training in Britain at that time. By 1975 British consultancy was beginning to recover from the two waves of disruption that witnessed consulting numbers dramatically fall and the structure of consultancy changed to reflect a greater prominence of sole practitioners. In 1961(a) Urwick suggested that the delivery of training and the transference of knowledge was an almost 'natural' consequence of consulting work and, therefore, an inevitable by-product of management consultancy.
