The Institute of Business Sciences of the University of Miskolc carried out a survey of management consultant firms and enterprises in 2001, in 2005-2006, in 2011-2012 and in 2015-16 in Northeast Hungary. The goal of our surveys were to determine the situation (importance) of business consulting...

Consulting firms (CFs) sell services on a project basis to many clients and must therefore continuously tender for new contracts. One frequently used strategy by CFs is to visit the clients in connection to the tenders. The reasons to the visits are: (1) to influence the client in his...

Business advisors and their impact on the perfor -mance of micro, small and medium-sized com- panies (MSMEs) have been in the focus of many researchers for a long time. MSMEs are reporting increasing interest in professional business advice, but only a small share of MSME owners is using...

The impact of the knowledge based society, especially on knowledge intensive business services, proved to have a really significant influence on the development of services industry. Consultancy services are acknowledged as innovation-intensive and knowledge-intensive business services at the...

The Institute of Business Sciences of the University of Miskolc carried out a survey of management consulting firms and enterprises in 2001, 2005-2006 (Szadai, 2007), 2011-2012 (Tokár-Szadai, 2014), and 2015-16 in North-eastern Hungary. The goal of our surveys was to determine the status...

The Institute of Business Sciences of the University of Miskolc conducted a survey in 2001, 2005-06, 2011-12 and 2015-16 among consultants and their clients. In this study, the author presents on the basis of which aspects the clients choose a consultant, what the difference is between the...

In recent years, development agencies (DAs) have focused their activities on consulting projects rather than on financing turnkey projects when assisting emerging markets. The main reason is that the implementation of consulting projects is likely to be connected with an intensive knowledge...

The Institute of Business Sciences of the University of Miskolc conducted a survey in2001, 2005-06, 2011-12 and 2015-16 among consultants and their clients. In this study,the author presents on the basis of which aspects the clients choose a consultant,what the difference is between the opinion...

The Institute of Business Sciences of the University of Miskolc carried out a survey of management consulting firms and enterprises in 2001, 2005-2006 (Szadai, 2007), 2011-2012 (Tokár-Szadai, 2014), and 2015-16 in North-eastern Hungary. The goal of our surveys was to determine the status...

Unternehmen lassen sich bei Fusionen und Übernahmen oft von Beratern begleiten. Die Auswertung einer Branchendatenbank zeigt, dass der Anteil einheimischer Fusionsberater an Fusionen in Deutschland in den letzten 15 Jahren stark gesunken ist. An ihre Stelle treten insbesondere Dienstleister aus...