| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 531 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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 university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Business education -- United States.
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Business education. |
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United States. |
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Business schools -- United States.
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Business schools. |
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Management -- Vocational guidance -- United States.
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Management -- Vocational guidance. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Khurana, Rakesh, 1967- From higher aims to hired hands. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691120201 069112020X (DLC) 2007014497 (OCoLC)123136639 |
| ISBN |
9781400830862 (electronic book) |
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1400830869 (electronic book) |
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1282259199 |
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9781282259195 |
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9780691120201 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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069112020X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691145877 |
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