The world's newest profession:management consulting in the twentieth century
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Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
Publication Dates: | 2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise |
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Carrier Form: | xxi, 370 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0521810396 (hardcover) 9780521810395 (hardcover) |
Call Number: | C932.871.2/M155 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-355) and index. Introduction : making a career of consulting -- Economies 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 profits 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 adult -- Conclusion : the world's newest profession? -- Notes. |