From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:069112020X
ISBN13:9780691120201
Release Date:October 2007
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:531 Pages
Weight:1.95 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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