Gatekeepers and Consultants

Board of Consultants and Advisors

Cultural Mediators and Gatekeepers

The shaping influence of cultural mediators, in particular their legitimizing power, has led cultural scholars to coin them ‘tastemakers’, ‘gatekeepers’, ‘surrogate consumers’, ‘reputational entrepreneurs’, or even ‘co-producers’ of the work of art. Yet, in practice, mediators perform highly different and often distinct activities according to their particular contributions in the (increasingly...

Consultants.

Americo Abbruzzese Herbert L. Abrams Stanley J. Adelstein Milton H. Alper William A. Altemeir Alan G. Birtch Bruce R. Brener John R. Brooks Hathorn P. Brown Theodore Colton Oliver Cope Nathan P. Couch Chilton Crane Gustave J. Dammin Donald P. Dressler J. Englebert Dunphy Richard W. Dwight Robert M. Filler William P. Grigsby Richard E. Hicks David Littmann Emmanuel Mannarino William V. McDermott...

Consultants and Knowledge Management

i Viewing the consulting process through a knowledge management lens shows explanatory promise. The discussion following seeks to instantiate various knowledge-related concepts through reference to the consulting ERP-support practice. First, the global character, dynamism and importance of the consulting sector are demonstrated. Hoeksema and de Jong (2001) observe that " In the field of consult...

Texaco and its consultants.