From Initiator to Consumer
研究了1940年代中期以来荷兰政府在管理知识向商界传播中的角色转变，从发起和推动知识网络到1980年代后成为管理知识的主要消费者。
The Dutch government has played a significant role in the dissemination of management knowledge to the Dutch business community and as such in the professionalization of management since the mid-1940s. After the Second World War, the Dutch government initiated and stimulated the development of an institutionalized network to transfer management knowledge. In the 1980s, however, the government’s position changed dramatically. Its directive role as stimulator and distributor of knowledge diminished and was taken over by actors such as consulting agencies, gurus and commercial publishers. As well as decreasing its role as distributor, the government also changed its own position. Governmental bodies themselves increasingly began to use management knowledge and in doing so became one of the largest consumers in the Netherlands.