Issue № 27. June 2011

Internal and External Consulting Divide the Market – Trends in Modern Consulting Services Market Development

Associate professor, Public Administration and National Security Department, Faculty of Unternational Law, Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
E-mail: vsurma@gmail.com

The author considers modern trends of development of the market of consulting services. At current level of globalization of economic processes in the large international corporations a necessity for the creation of flexible consulting structures is more than justified. Many corporations create analytical divisions to define possible ways of action in the conditions of strengthening of integration processes. Frequently, such “internal consulting” groups use “external consulting”, especially when it concerns specific reorganization and financial problems.

Keywords

Consulting, globalization, transnational corporations, services market.