Closing the gap between scientific research and management consulting

Management consultants increasingly need to know the most recent theoretical developments in management disciplines outside the constraints of day-to-day business. At the same time, it is more and more important for academic researchers to experience real management problems, to question the dominant theoretical assumptions, to develop new ideas, thereby helping to renew the knowledge held in management disciplines. Bringing the two worlds of research and consulting closer together consequently becomes an opportunity that can no longer be put off.