McKenna, Christopher D.
The world's newest profession : management consulting in the twentieth century / Christopher D. McKenna. - xxi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
0521810396 (hardcover) 9780521810395
2006002824
Business consultants--United States.
Consulting firms--United States.
HD69.C6 / M395 2006
011
The world's newest profession : management consulting in the twentieth century / Christopher D. McKenna. - xxi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
0521810396 (hardcover) 9780521810395
2006002824
Business consultants--United States.
Consulting firms--United States.
HD69.C6 / M395 2006
011