From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a ProfessionIs management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. |
Contents
1 | |
An Occupation in Search of Legitimacy | 23 |
Science the Professions and the University | 54 |
The Invention of the UniversityBased Business School | 87 |
The Business School as Aspiring | 99 |
II | 109 |
Contents | 179 |
The Changing Institutional Field in the Postwar Era | 195 |
III | 243 |
The Triumph of the Market and the Abandonment of | 289 |
Business Schools in the Marketplace | 333 |
Markets Hierarchies | 363 |
Other editions - View all
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American ... Rakesh Khurana No preview available - 2010 |
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American ... Rakesh Khurana No preview available - 2007 |