The world's newest profession management consulting in the twentieth century

Introduction : the strange career of consulting -- Ecomonics of knowledge : a theory of management consulting -- Accounting for a new profession : consultant's struggle -- For jurisdiction power -- Howhave consultants mattered? the case of Lukens steel -- Creating the contractor state : consult...

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1. Verfasser: McKenna, Christopher D. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
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Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : the strange career of consulting -- Ecomonics of knowledge : a theory of management consulting -- Accounting for a new profession : consultant's struggle -- For jurisdiction power -- Howhave 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 culturem : codifying and commodifying professionalism -- Watchdogs, lapdogs, or retrievers? liability and the rebirth of the management adult -- Conclusion : the word's newest profession? -- Notes
Beschreibung: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. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-355) and index
Beschreibung:XXI, 370 S.
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24cm
ISBN:9780521810395
978-0-521-81039-5
0521810396
0-521-81039-6