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A Managerial Evaluation of the Consulting Market

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The purpose of this chapter is to give you, as a business manager, a brief insight into the latest economic developments, including hard macroeconomic data as well as the crises of various stock markets around the world, the insolvencies that hit the globe like a bonfiire, and their implications for the consulting market and impacts for you as the consultancies’ client. I shall also concisely discuss the strong wish of institutions which are trying to maintain the integrity of the stock markets — like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States or the European Commission for the European Union (EU) — to prevent companies from offering both auditing and consulting services to the same client. This, obviously, has wide implications for the consulting industry.

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Seebacher, U.G. (2003). A Managerial Evaluation of the Consulting Market. In: Template-driven Consulting. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24819-4_3

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