World's Newest Profession Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century

Name: World's Newest Profession Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780521757591

ISBN-10: 0521757592

ISBN-13: 9780521757591

Edition: 2010

Authors: Christopher D. McKenna

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Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

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



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 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 world's newest profession?