Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Making a Career of Consulting
- 1 Economies of Knowledge: A Theory of Management Consulting
- 2 Accounting for a New Profession: Consultants' Struggle for Jurisdictional Power
- 3 How Have Consultants Mattered? The Case of Lukens Steel
- 4 Creating the Contractor State: Consultants in the American Federal Government
- 5 Finding Profit in Nonprofits: The Influence of Consultants on the Third Sector
- 6 The Gilded Age of Consulting: A Snapshot of Consultants Circa 1960
- 7 The American Challenge: Exporting the American Model
- 8 Selling Corporate Culture: Codifying and Commodifying Professionalism
- 9 Watchdogs, Lapdogs, or Retrievers? Liability and the Rebirth of the Management Audit
- Conclusion.The World's Newest Profession?
- Notes
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Making a Career of Consulting
- 1 Economies of Knowledge: A Theory of Management Consulting
- 2 Accounting for a New Profession: Consultants' Struggle for Jurisdictional Power
- 3 How Have Consultants Mattered? The Case of Lukens Steel
- 4 Creating the Contractor State: Consultants in the American Federal Government
- 5 Finding Profit in Nonprofits: The Influence of Consultants on the Third Sector
- 6 The Gilded Age of Consulting: A Snapshot of Consultants Circa 1960
- 7 The American Challenge: Exporting the American Model
- 8 Selling Corporate Culture: Codifying and Commodifying Professionalism
- 9 Watchdogs, Lapdogs, or Retrievers? Liability and the Rebirth of the Management Audit
- Conclusion.The World's Newest Profession?
- Notes
- Index
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- The World's Newest ProfessionManagement Consulting in the Twentieth Century, pp. i - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006