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s project examines the market strategies, personnel policies and professionalisation activities in the business consulting sector in Germany in the context of the increasing tendency towards internationalisation. At the centre of the study is the question of in how far associations and businesses appreciate that an increasing number of qualified women is available to them and in how far they view them as a target group for their strategies and activities.
The theoretical basis of the study combines three strands:
This project, conducted by Sigrid Quack and Sebastian Botzem, looks at the internationalisation of knowledge-intensive service intermediaries using the example of law and accounting firms. We hope to gain a better understanding of co-evolutive processes characterised by the mutual influence of institutional conditions and actor behaviour. In particular, we analyse:
Die Durchführung des Dissertationsprojektes erfolgt in Kooperation mit dem vier Länder (BE, NL, D, FR) und die EU-Ebene umfassenden Projekt „Access and Legitimacy“ an der Katholischen Universität Leuven, Belgien sowie in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. Bernhard Wessels (WZB). Finanziert wird das belgische Projekte durch den Forschungsfonds Flanders, Belgien. Die Finanzierung der deutschen Teilstudie bzw. des Dissertationsprojektes erfolgt durch das WZB im Rahmen des Doktorandinnen-Programmes.