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

Author/creator Khurana, Rakesh, 1967-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press,
Descriptionviii, 531 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents The professionalization project in American business education, 1881-1941 -- An occupation in search of legitimacy -- Ideas of order: science, the professions, and the university in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America -- The invention of the university-based business school -- "A very ill-defined institution": the business school as aspiring professional school -- 2: The institutionalization of business schools, 1941-1970 -- The changing institutional field in the postwar era -- Disciplining the business school faculty: the impact of the foundations -- 3: The triumph of the market and the abandonment of the professionalization project, 1970-the present -- Unintended consequences: the Post-Ford Business School and the fall of managerialism -- Business schools in the marketplace.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 483-507) and index.
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LCCN 2007014497
ISBN9780691120201 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN069112020X (hardcover : alk. paper)

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