Research on the Developing Environment of Management Consulting Industry of Liaoning Province

Abstract

Beginning with the origin of management consulting, The development history of management consulting was introduced, the developing actuality of the management consulting enterprises of Liaoning province was analyzed from the data, type, and area distribution, And then the survival environment of management consulting industry of Liaoning province was analyzed from law and policy, economy, market demand and cultural which provided the first hand information to draw up the developing policy for management consulting Industry of Liaoning province. Overview of Management Consulting In our country, Consulting and advisory phenomenon has a long history, MenKes in the slave society, the staff officers in the feudal society had started to provide advice.[1] In the 1920s, engineering consulting companies appeared in the British, which developed consulting about project construction. Consulting activity began to change form individuals to institutions. The earliest management consulting appeared in the United States in 1870-1914, which mainly helped manufacturing enterprises improve production efficiency and work efficiency. After the Second World War, the world economy developed rapidly. Some new technologies and new methods which were developed in the war were introduced into the enterprise management practice by some scholars and consulting institutions, which have greatly enhanced the production and management efficiency of enterprises. In 21st century, due to the application of the information technology and so on, the social and economic structure had changed greatly.. Development Status of the Management Consulting of Liaoning Year-to-date August 2008, the management consulting enterprises in Liaoning province totaled to 832 which were registered, the registered capital was more than two hundred million yuan, and the employees were more than five thousand persons, such as table 1. From table 1, we can draw the conclusion: before 2001 there were 44 management consulting enterprises in Liaoning province, but only 9 of them were about management. During 2002 ~ 2007, the management consulting enterprises of Liaoning developed very rapidly, 686 management consulting enterprises were registered during this period, which occupied 82.45% of the all registered management consulting enterprises in Liaoning, corresponding with the rapid economic development in our country at the same time. By 2008, due to the influence of international financial crisis, China's economy growth rate had slowed down, and the registered management consulting enterprises were only 102 at the same time. So can draw the conclusion that the development of the management consulting enterprises accompanied by the development of the economy. 2nd International Conference on Science and Social Research (ICSSR 2013) © 2013. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 363 Fig1. the ratio of Management consulting enterprises in different area of LiaoNing ShenYang 49% DaLian 41% the other area 10% Fig2. the ratio of all kinds of consulting enterprises Investment consultation 35% Management consultation 29% Marketing consultation 8% Human resources and other consultation 8% Finance consultation 20% Table 1 Management consulting enterprise sheets of Liaoning Consulting types Registered time Management Marketing Financial Human and others Investment SUM 2001 and before 9 2 5 4 24 44 2002—2004 108 17 84 9 60 278 2004—2006 59 19 57 14 61 21