ABSTRACT
As we have seen, there are many different types of management consultancy and research projects involving and encompassing very different types of management consultancy activities and roles. It is difficult, therefore, and perhaps potentially dangerous to propose an overall framework of the key steps in the management and consultancy research process that can broadly apply irrespective of the type, nature and context of the management consultancy and research being considered. However, so long as we are aware of this problem, it is possible and indeed useful to consider a model of the overall process of management consultancy and research in order that we can consider the key steps and stages in this process.
