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From higher aims to hired hands the social transformation of American business schools and the unfulfilled promise of management as a profession

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton Princeton University Press 2017Description: viii, 531 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691145877
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 650.071KHU
Summary: Is 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-507) and index.

Is 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.

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