The World's Newest Profession : Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century / Christopher D. McKenna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKenna, Christopher D.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business consultants--United States.

Business consultants.

Consulting firms--United States.

Consulting firms.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

PDF

Summary:

A history of management consulting in the twentieth century, including the Enron/Andersen crisis.

Contents:

Introduction. Making a Career of Consulting 1

1 Economies of Knowledge: A Theory of Management Consulting 8

2 Accounting for a New Profession: Consultants' Struggle for Jurisdictional Power 26

3 How Have Consultants Mattered? The Case of Lukens Steel 51

4 Creating the Contractor State: Consultants in the American Federal Government 80

5 Finding Profit in Nonprofits: The Influence of Consultants on the Third Sector 111

6 The Gilded Age of Consulting: A Snapshot of Consultants Circa 1960 145

7 The American Challenge: Exporting the American Model 165

8 Selling Corporate Culture: Codifying and Commodifying Professionalism 192

9 Watchdogs, Lapdogs, or Retrievers? Liability and the Rebirth of the Management Audit 216

Conclusion. The World's Newest Profession? 245.

Notes:

Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2012).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780511511622

9780521810395

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Restricted for use by site license.