Frequent environmental discontinuity, and intense changes in the competitive dynamics and logics of client business areas, are transforming the physiology of the management consulting industry. This turmoil is generating uncertainty about the direction of the future structural evolution of the...

This article proposes a definition of management consulting, which aims to identify the distinctive features of this particular service activity and emphasizes the mainly cognitive nature of its value-creation potential. The proposed framework is corroborated by revealing (though short)...