...Russell Williams; Rulzion Rattray Consultants are often criticised for using the managerial equivalent of psychobabble, “consultobabble”, as a part of a big con. Consultobabble, it is argued, hides issues around consultant credibility and serves to generate a part of the mystique that allows them...

...Russell Williams Consultants are never far from criticism not least because of the so‐called “consultobabble” used it is argued to hide their lack of objectivity or deficiencies in terms of providing useful solutions to improve management processes. Utilising Erving Goffman’s role theory...

... consultancy. The review reveals conflicting results regarding the extent of these differences, which leaves open the question of whether research results in the human resource field can be generalized across all functions within an accounting and audit firm. We speculate that whereas in the past...

...Russell Williams Questions the simplistic cynical line on consulting as “consultobabble” sold to passive and vulnerable managers. Consultants do engage in impression management but their narrative comes from a complex interdependent client‐consultant relationship where both parties define and feed...

... standards regulating the nature of audit work. In the absence of standards, the views of individual practitioners will have a decisive effect on the form of the audit. Summarizes the results of a questionnaire survey of environmental consultants aimed at ascertaining what kind of audit work they do and what...