Amidst the rapid AI progress, consultancies have a dilemma: using AI’s efficiency while paying attention to the environmental impact. Experts warn about relying on AI, emphasizing its lack of human empathy, and understanding, crucial in consultancy. Yet, a sustainable future lies in balancing AI’s benefits with environmental responsibility. Consultants must retain their expertise, prioritizing analysis and client relationships, steering the industry towards an environment-friendly AI-supported future.

The transformative power of AI is reshaping our world. Consultancy firms are innovating by creating AI languages, a complex process of data, fine-tuning models, and continuous improvement. As a result, major consultancy companies are likely to have integrated AI models within five years, enhancing employee performance and fostering data-driven decision-making.

Mid-Level Employees Hold Power in Shaping Strategy and Communication. Unlike the old belief of top managers as sole decision-makers, our study shows mid-level employees wield substantial influence over how strategic issues get attention and which communication channels are used for it.

The Covid-19 pandemic decreased entrepreneurial intentions in Africa, but at the same time entrepreneurs illustrated entrepreneurial resilience and innovativeness. Considering these contrasting effects, we urge practitioners to take local contextual dimensions into account and foster entrepreneurial resilience whilst designing entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial support programmes in the aftermath of the pandemic.

The emergence of influential management concepts, such as Lean, Agile, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), drives organizational transformation. Recent research highlights the pivotal role of managers who strategically position themselves between top-level management and front-line employees, utilizing different modes of translation to transform these complex concepts into action.

Reading and discussing world literature can contribute to the moral development of business school students. Stories with a complex moral challenge inspired students to be personally involved with the ethical side of business and stimulated to the growth of ‘moral muscle’.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are frequently used as vehicles for growth, yet failure rates remain high. An overlooked reason are important “human factors” such as emotions that are vital to M&A performance. Our research reveals emotional dynamics and their effects during an M&A process.

A new study has expanded the discussion on ethical practice in business consulting by reviewing media reporting, interview transcripts and jokes made on the internet to identify five common ethical transgressions made by consultants.