This article intends to contribute toward a better understanding of the consulting market's growth process, its forms of action and relationship of consulting firms with other organizations, based on points of reference used in this research. The article begins focusing on the market of international consulting firms, seeking to identify its main characteristics and changes in the recent decades. This is followed by an analysis based on the organizational dynamics of the last decades, especially on the formulations that attempt to work with the subject of the influence of the financial field in the administration forms and in the managerial contents of the companies. Using these two approaches the article seeks to characterize the relationship between the consulting firms and other organizations and to supply an important element for the understanding the development of organizational choices in companies and the forms of manager' work.
Management; consulting firms; organizational changes
