"This book provides a new perspective on innovation in consultancy firms. Focusing on how consultancy firms can innovate in the modern era, it exposes and discusses key drivers for innovation in the industry. These are broken down into 5 dimensions - or 'Poles' - relating to forms of capital...

<P><I>List of Figures</P><P>Preface</P></I><P>1. Introduction</P><P>2. Pole 1: Human Capital</P><P>3. Pole 2: Social Capital</P><P>4. Pole 3: Consultant Virtualization</P><P>5. Pole 4: Disruption in the Consultancy Life-Cycle</P><P>6. Pole 5: Reflective Ability in Consultancy</P><P>7. Connecting the Poles to form the Innovative Consultancy</P><P>8. Implications of...</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></i></p>

We investigate the relationship between innovation and sales growth of firms in China. Innovation theories suggest firms create the technological knowledge needed to have market impact with their products and drive sales growth in different ways. These include: (1) through firms’ overall...