期刊名称：Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences
电子版ISSN：2141-7024
出版年度：2014
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：173-186
出版社：Scholarlink Resource Centre
摘要：The beginning of the century XXI has seen rapid and radical transformations in the consulting industry as theresult of questioning the strategic diversification models undertaken by the so-called "top 5" [Arthur Andersen(now bankrupt), Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)]. However thereasons for the increase use of consultants and the explosion of this industry sector has not been accompanied bya number of academic studies that highlight the importance of the effective work of management consultants.From an empirical analysis in the form of interviews and semi-structured questionnaires with managementconsultants and SME managers in Portugal, this article aims to tackle the lack of studies in this emerging fieldby assessing the impact of management consulting at the level of work carried out in SMEs. The suggestionspresented here illustrate a set of actions not related to what the consultants are doing, but regarding to what theconsultants should do, looking for to empower management advisors with important information that willcontribute to a better formulation of strategy to simultaneously contribute to the literature of the field of analysisof strategy-as-practice
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