Convener of an EGOS-Subplenary Discussion: Academics and Consultants in Organization Theory Development: Interplay, Autism or ...? Participants: Ayad Al-Ani, Holger Eckstein, Alfred Kieser, Richard Whittington and Maurizio Zollo. 23rd EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Colloquium. Vienna (Austria), July 5, 2007.