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Informationen zum Autor Christopher D. McKenna is Reader in Business History and Strategy at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. Klappentext In The World's Newest Profession, Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This book offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century. It details how the elite consulting firms expanded after US regulatory changes during the 1930s! how they changed giant corporations! nonprofits! and the state during the 1950s! and explains exactly what consultants really do and why they became so influential in the global economy after 1960. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?
