Dear colleagues,
my edited book 'Advances in Consulting Research', which appears of interest to this community,
was recently published by Springer. In fact, some of you contributed to this volume. Here is an
overview of the contents:
Consulting Research – A Scientific Perspective on Consulting. 7
Volker Nissen
Part I Consulting Research as a Discipline.
Consulting – Characterization of Concepts and Connections. 31
Thomas Deelmann
Institutionalization of Consulting Research – Review and Comparison of Two Approaches in Germany over the Period 2007 – 2017. 51
Thomas Deelmann, Volker Nissen
Part II General Issues in Consulting.
To Measure is to Know – Development of an Instrument for Measuring Consulting Service Value. 71
Severin Oesterle, Arne Buchwald, Nils Urbach
Measuring and Managing the Reputation of Business Consultancies. 89
Volker Nissen, Johannes Dittler
Development and Handling of Procedure Models for the Selection and Implementation of Business Software. 112
How to Design, Implement, and Manage Accepted Business Processes. 125
Volker Nissen, Thomas Müllerleile
An Empirical Study on the Work-Life-Balance in German IT Consulting – With a Focus on Female Consultants. 144
Volker Nissen, Frank Termer
Part III Consulting Fields and Approaches.
Systemic Consultancy, Theory and Application. 162
Martin Hillebrand, Stefan Mette
Open Management as Management Innovation: Thoughts about New Business and Disruption in Consulting. 178
Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen, Kurt Matzler, Julia Hautz
Sustainability Consultancies and their Contribution to Sustainable Development 189
Lisa Hannemann
Part IV Consulting Clients and Market
Consulting Industry and Market Trends – A Two-Sided View.. 209
Christoph Treichler
The Development of Interpersonal Trust between the Consultant and Client in the Course of the Consulting Process. 226
Christian Mauerer
How to Successfully Position New Consulting Services with Clients – Insights from the Theory of Planned Behavior. 248
Volker Nissen, Tino Machts
Part V Future of Consulting.
On the Current State of Digital Transformation in the German Market for Business Consulting. 261
Volker Nissen, Anne Füßl, Dirk Werth, Kristina Gugler, Christian Neu
Digital Transformation and IT Topics in the Consulting Industry – a Labor Market Perspective. 280
Frank Bensberg, Gandalf Buscher, Christian Czarnecki
Consulting in the Age of Digital Transformation. 296
Ferdinando Piumelli
Case Study: Digital Consulting for Dental Practices by Benchmarking. 306
Christian Stummeyer
Transformation of Consulting for Software-Defined Businesses – Lessons from a DevOps Case Study in a German IT Company. 317
Rainer Alt, Gunnar Auth, Christoph Kögler
Robo-Advisory – Opportunities and Risks for the Future of Financial Advisory. 333
Dominik Jung, Florian Glaser, Willi Köpplin
About the Authors. 352
Further details may be found here: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319959986