The world's newest profession : management consulting in the twentieth century /

As consulting grew rapidly in the United States due to federal regulation during the Great Depression, consultants transformed the giant American corporations. Not only did these new 'management consultants' overhaul the world of business, but they also restructured the Federal government...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKenna, Christopher D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2006.
Colección:Cambridge studies in the emergence of global enterprise.
Temas:
Business consultants > United States.
Consulting firms > United States.
Conseillers d'entreprise > États-Unis.
Sociétés de conseil > États-Unis.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Business consultants
Consulting firms
Unternehmensberatung
Organisatieadvisering.
Internationalisatie.
Management.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : making a career of consulting
  • Economics of knowledge : a theory of management consulting
  • Accounting for a new profession : consultants' struggle for jurisdictional power
  • How have consultants mattered? the case of Lukens Steel
  • Creating the contractor state : consultants in the American Federal Government
  • Finding profit in nonprofits : the influence of consultants on the third sector
  • The gilded age of consulting : a snapshot of consultants circa 1960
  • The American challenge : exporting the American model
  • Selling corporate culture : codifying and commodifying professionalism
  • Watchdogs, lapdogs, or retrievers? liability and the rebirth of the management audit
  • Conclusion : the word's newest profession?
  • Notes.

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