The world's newest profession : management consulting in the twentieth century /
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : making a career of consulting
- Ecomonics of knowledge : a theory of management consulting
- Accounting for a new profession : consultants' struggle for jurisdictional power
- How have consultants mattered? the case of Lukens Steel
- Creating the contractor state : consultants in the American Federal Government
- Finding profit in nonprofits : the influence of consultants on the third sector
- The gilded age of consulting : a snapshot of consultants circa 1960
- The American challenge : exporting the American model
- Selling corporate culture : codifying and commodifying professionalism
- Watchdogs, lapdogs, or retrievers? liability and the rebirth of the management audit
- Conclusion : the word's newest profession?
- Notes.