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

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"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 un...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Khurana, Rakesh, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Business education > United States.
Business schools > United States.
Management > Vocational guidance > United States.
Enseignement commercial > États-Unis.
Écoles de commerce > États-Unis.
Gestion > Orientation professionnelle > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Education.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Business education
Business schools
Management > Vocational guidance
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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