From higher aims to hired hands : the social transformation of American business schools and the unfulfilled promise of management as a profession /

Main Author: Khurana, Rakesh, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. An occupation in search of legitimacy
  • 2. Ideas of order : science, the professions, and the university in late nineteenth- and 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
  • 5. The changing institutional field in the postwar era
  • 6. Disciplining the business school faculty : the impact of the foundations
  • 7. Unintended consequences : the Post-Ford Business School and the fall of managerialism
  • 8. Business schools in the marketplace
  • 9. Epilogue : ideas of order revisited : markets, hierarchies, and communities.