The world's newest profession : management consulting in the twentieth century / Christopher D. McKenna.

By: McKenna, Christopher D [author.]
Language: English Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: xxi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521810396 (hardcover); 9780521810395Subject(s): Business consultants -- United States | Consulting firms -- United StatesDDC classification: 011 LOC classification: HD69.C6 | M395 2006
Contents:
Introduction : making a career of consulting -- Ecomonics of knowledge : a theory of management consulting -- Accounting for a new profession : consultants' struggle for jurisdictional power -- How have consultants mattered? the case of Lukens Steel -- Creating the contractor state : consultants in the American Federal Government -- Finding profit in nonprofits : the influence of consultants on the third sector -- The gilded age of consulting : a snapshot of consultants circa 1960 -- The American challenge : exporting the American model -- Selling corporate culture : codifying and commodifying professionalism -- Watchdogs, lapdogs, or retrievers? liability and the rebirth of the management audit -- Conclusion : the word's newest profession? -- Notes.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-355) and index.

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

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