Diese Studie analysiert und bewertet die Förderkulisse des Ernährungshandwerks im ländlichen Raum beispielhaft anhand der selbstschlachtenden Metzger. Dazu wurden leitfadengestützte Interviews mit Ministerien, Bewilligungsstellen, Handwerks- und Landwirtschaftskammern sowie Fleischerinnungen...

Prozesse von Internationalisierung und Europäisierung, steigende Beschäftigung einschließlich einer erhöhten Partizipation von Frauen und die Etablierung eines Beratungssektors in den neuen Bundesländern führ(t)en in der Unternehmensberaterbranche zu erheblichen Restrukturierungen. Die...

This article explores the wide range of roles that consultants can play to either enable or hinder organizational learning processes. A core concept in this analysis is the achievement of an appropriate marginality of the consultants’ role, in order to allow the organizational members to...

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...

In the emerging globalised knowledge society/economy, a group of professionals, namely experts and consultants gain in importance. The paper discusses the following issues: Who are these experts and consultants? Why is this group of knowledge workers strategically important and why is their...

The Internet is often anticipated to have disruptive competitive impacts, causing upstart firms to overthrow incumbent market leaders. This paper uses the UK IT consulting industry as a test case to see whether such competitive impacts of the Internet might already be occurring. Comparable...