Purpose Academic research on management consulting or having management
consultancy as the main research field is huge as the sector is a strategic one for …

Management consultants have a widespread and ever‐increasing presence in modern
business. Yet few management studies explicitly focus on the consulting industry. What role …

This article introduces management consultants and management consultancy, which have
quickly become an important part of modern organizations. It notes that research on …

Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business,
and within other types of organization. The Oxford Handbook on Management Consulting is …

The purpose of this article is to:(i) provide a brief overview of the emergence and dynamics
of the management consulting industry,(ii) summarize the findings from the extant literature …

Management consulting as a profession is a coveted aspiration for management
professionals. This academic note seeks to define management consulting as an industry …

Management consulting as a service has become part of almost every medium to big
company's daily business. Despite management consulting's high practical relevance the …

Purpose This paper aims to conceptualize perceived management consulting success,
derive relevant success factors based on principal-agent theory and the resource-based …

Purpose–Many criticisms questioning the role and the efficiency of business consultants
have been addressed. However, although a great deal of research has been carried out on …

This paper reviews the past 28 years of scholarship on management consulting to
synthesize the field and establish more broadly its contribution to management research …