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Author Khurana, Rakesh, 1967-

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

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description viii, 531 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-507) and index.
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.
Subject Business education -- United States.
Business education.
United States.
Business schools -- United States.
Business schools.
Management -- Vocational guidance -- United States.
Management -- Vocational guidance.
ISBN 9780691120201 hardcover alkaline paper
069112020X hardcover alkaline paper