TY  - GEN
T1  - From higher aims to hired hands : the social transformation of American business schools and the unfulfilled promise of management as a profession
A1  - Khurana, Rakesh, 1967-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn439825964
AB  - "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. Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism."--Jacket
OP  - 531
CN  - HF1131 .K45 2007eb
SN  - 9781400830862
SN  - 1400830869
SN  - 1282259199
SN  - 9781282259195
SN  - 9786612259197
SN  - 6612259191
SN  - 9780691120201
SN  - 069112020X
SN  - 9780691145877
KW  - Business education : United States.
KW  - Business schools : United States.
KW  - Management : Vocational guidance : United States.
KW  - Enseignement commercial : États-Unis.
KW  - Écoles de commerce : États-Unis.
KW  - Gestion : Orientation professionnelle : États-Unis.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Education.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Business Ethics.
KW  - Business education
KW  - Business schools
KW  - Management : Vocational guidance
KW  - United States
ER  -