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Abstract
Companies often hire consultants because of their external, that is, impartial
view and expert opinion, expecting consulting intervention to improve their
performances. Beside the need for consulting activities in the fields where the
managers’ knowledge is insufficient, consultants can be hired for one-time-only or
additional, but very sensitive business activities such as new product introduction,
overseas market penetration or aggressive competition struggle. At the same time,
the assistance of consultancy organizations can be needed when the company’s
management is burdened with other numerous activities, in case of company
diversification when the existing, real management capacity does not provide
simultaneous optimization of business activities. Consequently, consultancy
organizations enable companies to achieve their goals, solve business and
management-related problems, identify and exploit new opportunities, improve
their knowledge and put into practice the proposed changes. The level of use of
consultancy services in serbian agro-sector was researched in these paper, the
representation providers of consulting services by type, the future demand for
consulting services and financing models for consulting services.