From Higher Aims to Hired Hands : : The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession / / Rakesh Khurana.
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that universi...
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Khurana, Rakesh, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut From Higher Aims to Hired Hands : The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession / Rakesh Khurana. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010] ©2007 1 online resource (568 p.) : 7 line illus. 15 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Business Education and the Social Transformation of American Management -- I. The Professionalization Project in American Business Education, 1881-1941 -- 1. An Occupation in Search of Legitimacy -- 2. Ideas of Order: Science, the Professions, and the University in Late Nineteenthand Early Twentieth-Century America -- 3. The Invention of the University-Based Business School -- 4. "A Very Ill-Defined Institution": The Business School as Aspiring Professional School -- II. The Institutionalization of Business Schools, 1941-1970 -- 5. The Changing Institutional Field in the Postwar Era -- 6. Disciplining the Business School Faculty: The Impact of the Foundations -- III. The Triumph of the Market and the Abandonment of the Professionalization Project, 1970-the Present -- 7. Unintended Consequences: The Post-Ford Business School and the Fall of Managerialism -- 8. Business Schools in the Marketplace -- Epilogue. Ideas of Order Revisited: Markets, Hierarchies, and Communities -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic and Methods Note -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism. Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Education. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691145877 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400830862 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400830862 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400830862.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Business Education and the Social Transformation of American Management -- I. The Professionalization Project in American Business Education, 1881-1941 -- 1. An Occupation in Search of Legitimacy -- 2. Ideas of Order: Science, the Professions, and the University in Late Nineteenthand Early Twentieth-Century America -- 3. The Invention of the University-Based Business School -- 4. "A Very Ill-Defined Institution": The Business School as Aspiring Professional School -- II. The Institutionalization of Business Schools, 1941-1970 -- 5. The Changing Institutional Field in the Postwar Era -- 6. Disciplining the Business School Faculty: The Impact of the Foundations -- III. The Triumph of the Market and the Abandonment of the Professionalization Project, 1970-the Present -- 7. Unintended Consequences: The Post-Ford Business School and the Fall of Managerialism -- 8. Business Schools in the Marketplace -- Epilogue. Ideas of Order Revisited: Markets, Hierarchies, and Communities -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic and Methods Note -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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