Christopher D. McKenna

The World's Newest Profession

Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In The World's Newest Profession, Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9780521757591
• ISBN-10: 0521757592
• Artikelnr.: 29338410

Autorenporträt

Christopher D. McKenna is Reader in Business History and Strategy at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: making a career of consulting
1. Economies of knowledge: a theory of management consulting
2. Accounting for a new profession: consultants' struggle for jurisdictional power
3. How have consultants mattered? The case of Lukens Steel
4. Creating the contractor state: consultants in the American Federal Government
5. Finding profit in nonprofits: the influence of consultants on the third sector
6. The gilded age of consulting: a snapshot of consultants circa 1960
7. The American challenge: exporting the American model
8. Selling corporate culture: codifying and commodifying professionalism
9. Watchdogs, lapdogs, or retrievers? Liability and the rebirth of the management audit
Conclusion: the world's newest profession?