From Higher Aims to Hired Hands : : The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession / / Rakesh Khurana.

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• VerfasserIn: Khurana, Rakesh,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (568 p.) :; 7 line illus. 15 tables.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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