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001 2006002824
003 DLC
005 20070725084139.0
008 060127s2006 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006002824
020 $a0521810396 (hardcover)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aHD69.C6$bM395 2006
100 1 $aMcKenna, Christopher D.
245 14 $aThe world's newest profession :$bmanagement consulting in the twentieth century /$cChristopher D. McKenna.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2006.
300 $axxi, 370 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-355) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 $aBusiness consultants$zUnited States.
650 0 $aConsulting firms$zUnited States.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006002824.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2006002824-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2006002824-b.html