Analysis of Interrelations between Business Models andKnowledge Management Strategies in Consulting Firms

Knowledge is an important matter for consulting firms − as a resource, as a product orservice, and as a trigger for internal value creation processes. Therefore, a strategy formanagement and utilisation of knowledge in its different state is needed. It is sensible toassume, that this strategy is strongly influenced by a respective consulting firm’s businessmodel. This paper provides an analysis of the interrelation between business model andKnowledge Management strategy. Four determinants are defined to allow a detaileddescription of different Knowledge Management strategies.[...]