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.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.Description: viii, 531 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 650.071/173 22
- HF1131 .K45 2007
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.