Defining management : business schools, consultants, media

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Engwall, Lars (Author), Kipping, Matthias (Author), Usdiken, Behlul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group c2016
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: the rise of management
  • 2. Background: views on the development of management
  • 3. Approach: three "fields" in historical, comparative, and integrative perspective
  • 4. The emergence of schools of commerce
  • 5. Accountants and efficiency engineers as early consultants
  • 6. Modest beginning for business publishing
  • 7. Establishing a place for business education
  • 8. Old certainties and new departures in consulting
  • 9. Broadening audiences for business publications
  • 10. Making business education scientific
  • 11. The assertion of management consulting
  • 12. Growth and diversification of management publishing
  • 13. The business school and the MBA become "global"
  • 14. Consulting as global big business
  • 15. Mergers and mass markets in media
  • 16. Conclusions: commoditizing management?