The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century: Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
Autor Christopher D. McKennaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521757591
ISBN-10: 0521757592
Pagini: 394
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures
Dimensiuni: 155 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0521757592
Pagini: 394
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures
Dimensiuni: 155 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
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?
Recenzii
'If you use consultants, or claim to be a consultant, you should read this book.' Charles Wilson, CEO, Booker Ltd.
'This book should be required reading for everyone who teaches at a business school, as well as for all MBA students. I recommend it to anyone interested in the upheavals around corporate governance and professional ethics that marked the turn of the 21st century.' JoAnne Yates, MIT Sloan School of Management
'McKenna has unearthed the distinctly American origins of modern consulting in the evolution of financial market regulation - surprisingly and convincingly.' John Clarkeson, co-Chairman of the Board, The Boston Consulting Group
'Witch doctors or miracle workers? Whatever your view of management consultants, it pays to understand how the world's leading consulting firms have become so influential. McKenna's superb history reveals how one crucial piece of US legislation - the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act - and one vibrant American city - Chicago - spawned an industry that has transformed the face of global business and national government in the 20th century.' Martin Giles, The Economist Group, North America
'Fascinating, frightening, and perfectly timed - McKenna's sweeping survey shines a brilliant light on a profession that has always preferred to keep outsiders in the dark.' Martin Kihn, author of House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
'McKenna opens the private world of management consulting to his keen analytical eye, providing a rich, absorbing accounting of the rise and expansion of this profession, and a sharp critique of consulting's role in shaping the strategies of the world's largest corporations. This is a fascinating, revealing book about a profession that has received little serious, sustained scholarly attention.' Walter W. Powell, Stanford University
'This history of management consulting analyses an important stream of the history of modern business itself. Today's managers can put its insights to practical use when engaging - or deciding not to engage - consultants.' Tony Tyler, Chief Operating Office, Cathay Pacific Airways
'McKenna's book does a superb job of exploring the role that this industry played in transforming (not always for the better) a variety of different types of organizations - from businesses to religious and charitable associations to government agencies - and through them much of the fabric of modern life.' Naomi Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles
'History is not bunk. With Glass-Steagall repealed and the aftershocks of the Enron scandal by no means over, the timing of The World's Newest Profession could hardly be more fortuitous. McKenna's breadth of scholarship and clarity of argument will undoubtedly sit, like Banquo's ghost, at the consulting banquet for years to come.' Fiona Czerniawska, Consulting to Management
'McKenna offers a lively look at a profession that has often been shrouded in secrecy, and shows how it has become enormously lucrative - although not always as a result of the quality of advice being doled out. Interesting and provocative, McKenna's book offers a lens to understand the development of the modern corporation.' Jon Housman, Managing Director of The Wall Street Journal Europe
'Intriguing revelations are contained in Chris McKenna's important new book. His timing is perfect. … Although academic thoroughness is one of its chief merits, the book remains readable and entertaining throughout. … It is a sober and truthful antidote to all the glossy consultancy brochures that promise 'strategic solutions' and 'value-added' analysis.' Financial Times
'A highly readable account of the rise of the management-consultancy phenomenon. McKenna is admirably balanced: not starry-eyed about the serious men in suits, but neither is he sneeringly cynical. Explains a lot about how businesses are run today.' Financial Times Magazine
'… the author has … done [one] of the most important things that he sets out to do which is to bring to the attention of current and future management consultants a knowledge of the development of their profession.' The Business Economist
'The World's Newest Profession documents the rise of management consulting in the United States. … It is a novel study that deserves the attention of business historians, management professors, and organizational scholars.' Neil Fligstein, Business History Review
'[The World's Newest Profession] is a compelling, well-told story that goes a long way toward explaining the ubiquity, intentions, and limitations of modern management consultants. The book makes an important contribution to the literatures on professionalization, on twentieth-century business history in the United States, and on corporate culture.' Christopher Tassava, Enterprise and Society
'This book should be required reading for everyone who teaches at a business school, as well as for all MBA students. I recommend it to anyone interested in the upheavals around corporate governance and professional ethics that marked the turn of the 21st century.' JoAnne Yates, MIT Sloan School of Management
'McKenna has unearthed the distinctly American origins of modern consulting in the evolution of financial market regulation - surprisingly and convincingly.' John Clarkeson, co-Chairman of the Board, The Boston Consulting Group
'Witch doctors or miracle workers? Whatever your view of management consultants, it pays to understand how the world's leading consulting firms have become so influential. McKenna's superb history reveals how one crucial piece of US legislation - the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act - and one vibrant American city - Chicago - spawned an industry that has transformed the face of global business and national government in the 20th century.' Martin Giles, The Economist Group, North America
'Fascinating, frightening, and perfectly timed - McKenna's sweeping survey shines a brilliant light on a profession that has always preferred to keep outsiders in the dark.' Martin Kihn, author of House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
'McKenna opens the private world of management consulting to his keen analytical eye, providing a rich, absorbing accounting of the rise and expansion of this profession, and a sharp critique of consulting's role in shaping the strategies of the world's largest corporations. This is a fascinating, revealing book about a profession that has received little serious, sustained scholarly attention.' Walter W. Powell, Stanford University
'This history of management consulting analyses an important stream of the history of modern business itself. Today's managers can put its insights to practical use when engaging - or deciding not to engage - consultants.' Tony Tyler, Chief Operating Office, Cathay Pacific Airways
'McKenna's book does a superb job of exploring the role that this industry played in transforming (not always for the better) a variety of different types of organizations - from businesses to religious and charitable associations to government agencies - and through them much of the fabric of modern life.' Naomi Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles
'History is not bunk. With Glass-Steagall repealed and the aftershocks of the Enron scandal by no means over, the timing of The World's Newest Profession could hardly be more fortuitous. McKenna's breadth of scholarship and clarity of argument will undoubtedly sit, like Banquo's ghost, at the consulting banquet for years to come.' Fiona Czerniawska, Consulting to Management
'McKenna offers a lively look at a profession that has often been shrouded in secrecy, and shows how it has become enormously lucrative - although not always as a result of the quality of advice being doled out. Interesting and provocative, McKenna's book offers a lens to understand the development of the modern corporation.' Jon Housman, Managing Director of The Wall Street Journal Europe
'Intriguing revelations are contained in Chris McKenna's important new book. His timing is perfect. … Although academic thoroughness is one of its chief merits, the book remains readable and entertaining throughout. … It is a sober and truthful antidote to all the glossy consultancy brochures that promise 'strategic solutions' and 'value-added' analysis.' Financial Times
'A highly readable account of the rise of the management-consultancy phenomenon. McKenna is admirably balanced: not starry-eyed about the serious men in suits, but neither is he sneeringly cynical. Explains a lot about how businesses are run today.' Financial Times Magazine
'… the author has … done [one] of the most important things that he sets out to do which is to bring to the attention of current and future management consultants a knowledge of the development of their profession.' The Business Economist
'The World's Newest Profession documents the rise of management consulting in the United States. … It is a novel study that deserves the attention of business historians, management professors, and organizational scholars.' Neil Fligstein, Business History Review
'[The World's Newest Profession] is a compelling, well-told story that goes a long way toward explaining the ubiquity, intentions, and limitations of modern management consultants. The book makes an important contribution to the literatures on professionalization, on twentieth-century business history in the United States, and on corporate culture.' Christopher Tassava, Enterprise and Society
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In The World's Newest Profession Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century.