From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

542 Pages·2007·2.05 MB·English

by  Rakesh Khurana

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The Social Transformation
of American Business Schools
and the Unfulfilled Promise
of Management as a Profession
RAKESH KHURANA
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
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Khurana,Rakesh,–
From higher aims to hired hands :the social transformation ofAmerican business schools
and the unfulfilled promise ofmanagement as a profession / Rakesh Khurana.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN ----(hardcover :alk.paper) . Business education—United States.
. Business schools—United States. . Management—Vocational guidance—United States.
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To Stephanie—
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Contents
Introduction
Business Education and the Social Transformation ofAmerican
Management 
I
The Professionalization Project in American Business Education,1881–1941
 An Occupation in Search ofLegitimacy 
 Ideas ofOrder:Science,the Professions,and the University in
Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America 
 The Invention ofthe University-Based Business School 
 “A Very Ill-Defined Institution”:The Business School as Aspiring
Professional School 
II
The Institutionalization of Business Schools,1941–1970
 The Changing Institutional Field in the Postwar Era 
 Disciplining the Business School Faculty:The Impact ofthe
Foundations 
III
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 ofManagerialism 
 Business Schools in the Marketplace 
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Epilogue
Ideas ofOrder Revisited:Markets,Hierarchies,and
Communities 
Acknowledgments 
Bibliographic and Methods Note 
Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Index 
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