LEADER 05077nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910959403003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612259197 010 $a9781282259195 010 $a1282259199 010 $a9781400830862 010 $a1400830869 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400830862 035 $a(CKB)1000000000389863 035 $a(EBL)457842 035 $a(OCoLC)439825964 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158795 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153941 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158795 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10149848 035 $a(PQKB)11392005 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36469 035 $a(DE-B1597)446784 035 $a(OCoLC)979741903 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400830862 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457842 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10320501 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL225919 035 $a(PPN)265130387 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88935365 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457842 035 $a(Perlego)734494 035 $a(FRCYB88935365)88935365 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000389863 100 $a20070412d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom higher aims to hired hands $ethe social transformation of American business schools and the unfulfilled promise of management as a profession /$fRakesh Khurana 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (542 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780691145877 311 08$a0691145873 311 08$a9780691120201 311 08$a069112020X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 483-507) and index. 327 $aThe professionalization project in American business education, 1881-1941 -- An occupation in search of legitimacy -- Ideas of order: science, the professions, and the university in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America -- The invention of the university-based business school -- "A very ill-defined institution": the business school as aspiring professional school -- 2: The institutionalization of business schools, 1941-1970 -- The changing institutional field in the postwar era -- Disciplining the business school faculty: the impact of the foundations -- 3: The triumph of the market and the abandonment of the professionalization project, 1970-the present -- Unintended consequences: the Post-Ford Business School and the fall of managerialism -- Business schools in the marketplace. 330 $aIs 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. Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders. 606 $aBusiness education$zUnited States 606 $aBusiness schools$zUnited States 606 $aManagement$xVocational guidance$zUnited States 615 0$aBusiness education 615 0$aBusiness schools 615 0$aManagement$xVocational guidance 676 $a650.071/173 700 $aKhurana$b Rakesh$f1967-$0477794 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959403003321 996 $aFrom Higher aims to hired hands$9241597 997 $aUNINA