Exploring Knowledge Creation Pathways in Advanced Management Consulting: Scenarios for the Evolution of Management Consultant’s Roles

The book proposes two perspectives for interpreting management consulting: the defining perspective (conceptual delimitation) and the synchronic perspective (consulting models), emphasizing that the latter when compared to the diachronic interpretation (consulting process), better enables identification of the explanatory variables of the cognitive dynamics characterizing the consulting relationship. The interpretative framework developed in the last section is an original application of the theories that interpret knowledge creation processes as knowledge conversion processes to the specific context of management consulting relationships.