TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKenna,Christopher D.
TI  - The world's newest profession: management consulting in the twentieth century 
SN  - 0521810396 (hardcover)
AV  - HD 69.C6 M395.2008
PY  - 2008///, 2006
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University
KW  - Business consultants
KW  - United States
KW  - Consultores de negocios
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Consulting firms
KW  - Firmas de consultorías
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 253-355) e índice; 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
ER  -