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

By: Khurana, Rakesh, 1967-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007Description: viii, 531 p. : illSubject(s): Business education -- United States | Business schools -- United States | Management -- Vocational guidance -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 650.071/173 LOC classification: HF1131 | .K45 2007Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-507) and index.

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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