Boutique consultancy firms operate in global markets in selected areas in which they hold the strongest competencies - able to provide tailor-made rather than off-the- shelf services in any situation. Clients aiming to impose far-reaching change, are typical boutique clients. Irrespective of...

Companies, in every industry are increasingly challenged to build a capacity for change, both in response to and in anticipation of continuously changing competitive market and technological pressures. Client-consultant collaboration can be prompted to broaden change management repertoire,...

The ethics we find in companies contains the same elements as the ethics in the socio-economic context in which they operate. The aspirations and ethical levels of companies operating in certain countries differ substantially from those of companies operating in other areas, where the defence of...

Within economic globalization, management consulting has become an important source for innovation in management, forming a bridge between academia, firms, and thought leaders in other fields. In the 1980s and 1990s, management consulting has grown quickly in US and in Europe. The current trend...

In the last years, dominated by the new reality of the global markets, the traditional vision of corporate management has recorded many changes, that also change the role and the organizational structures of management consulting firms. Corporations operating in global markets have very...

The extraordinary growth of Private Equity over the use last ten years has led to this capital market sector becoming a fully-fledged industry with specific operational skills, methodologies and capabilities. Private Equity is constantly seeking out new ideas and people capable of delivering...

The competitive context in which companies operate has changed with increasing globalization which continues to have an impact. The market-driven companies, with a superior ability to understand the markets and attract and retain its high-value customers, must take account of the stepping up of...

Today's contemporary art world has to come to terms with a highly unstable socio-economic context that is evolving rapidly and constantly, with the result that any analysis to establish the state of the demand and supply of artistic goods and services in a global scenario is quite complex. The...

The increasing importance recognised to corporate governance, the shift from the dominance of the shareholder view to the prevalence of the stakeholder view, and the necessity to recover approval on companies' actions have stressed the opportunity of complete disclosure about corporate...

The globalisation of the market and the growth of companies into increasingly complex and ramified networks underline the importance of communication and of the information flows that sustain relations between a company's executive organ, its management, shareholders and other stakeholders. In a...