Defining Management: Business Schools, Consultants, Media

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Rise of Management
2. Background: Views on the Development of Management
	Management as Practice
		The Origins of Management and Managers
		Further Expansion and Transformation
		Changing Backgrounds of Managers
	Management as Innovation
		Early Origins of Management Ideas
		Moving beyond the Shopfloor
		The Dominant Narrative and its Critics
	Management as Fashion
3. Approach: Three “Fields” in Historical, Comparative, and Integrative Perspective
	Business Schools, Consultants, and Media as Organizational Fields
		Defining Organizational Fields
		Characteristics of Fields: Structures and Logics
		Relations and Interactions between Fields
	A Historical, Comparative, and Integrative Perspective
		The Development of the Three Fields
		Cross-national Comparisons and Linkages
		Interactions among the Fields and with Practice
PART I: Diverse Origins
	4. The Emergence of Schools of Commerce
		Organizing Higher Commercial Education
			United States: Inclusion into Universities
			Europe: Left on the Outside
		Pioneering Initiatives and Early Expansion
			United States: Failed and Successful Foundations
			Europe: Multiple Moves and Influences
		International Circulation of Models
	5. Accountants and Efficiency Engineers as Early Consultants
		Situating the Origins of Consulting: A Variety of Views
		Accountants as Invisible Frontrunners
		Scientific Management and the “Efficiency Experts”
			The United States as the Seedbed
			Consulting Emergent: Many Individuals and One Firm
			Spreading the Gospel – and the Business
	6. Modest Beginnings for Business Publishing
		Frontrunners in Business and Management Publishing
			The Origin of Four Significant Publishing Houses
			The Four Publishing Houses in Context
		The Business Press: Specialized Challengers to the Established Newspapers
			Four Significant Entrants
			The Entrants in Context
		Academic Journals: Early Steps Towards Institutionalization
			Points of Departure
			Five American Frontrunners
			The Five Frontrunners in Context
PART II: In Search of Directions
	7. Establishing a Place for Business Education
		The Struggle for Recognition as a Professional School in the United States
			Changing Nomenclature, Continuing Diversity
			Claims toward “Profession” and “Science”
			Expansion, Increasing Stratification, First Critiques
		Diverging Developments in Europe and Elsewhere
			Turning into a “Science” and a Faculty in Germany
			Fragile Developments in France and the United Kingdom
			Diverse Influences, Different Outcomes in Other Parts of the World
	8. Old Certainties and New Departures in Consulting
		Scientific Management: Still on a Mission, Now Also Internationally
			Expanding Taylorist Ideology and Practice
			Waning Efforts in Japan, China, and Russia
			Building an Alternative: Germany’s Cooperative Logic
		Efficiency as a Growing Business
			US Consulting Engineers at Home and Abroad
			Paling Them All: Charles E. Bedaux and His Firm
			Moving Abroad and Engendering Local Firms
		The “Others”: Ongoing Trends and New Developments
			Still in the Shadows: Accounting and HR Consulting
			What the Future Would Bring: A Professional Vision for the Field
	9. Broadening Audiences for Business Publications
		Publishers: New Actors and Increasing Numbers of Management Books
			Wiley, Harper, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill
			Other Early Entrants: The Ronald Press and University Presses
			Four Additional Publishers
			The Emergence of General Management Books
		Expansion of the Business Press: Higher Circulation and New Titles
		Academic Journals: New Initiatives from Universities and Professional Associations
			Four Interwar Entrants
			Impact and Orientation of the Nine FT45 Journals
			The FT45 Journals in Context
PART III: Post-World War II Expansion
	10. Making Business Education Scientific
		Post-war Transformation in the United States
		The New Look “Business School” and the MBA in the United States
		American-style Business Education Moves Abroad
			The Post-war US Offensive
			The Stand-alone Schools
			Penetration into the University
			The University-based Graduate Business School and the MBA
		Growth in Business Education Outside the United States and
its Limitations
	11. The Assertion of Management Consulting
		Consulting Engineers: Mixed Fortunes
			United States: Out With the Old, In With the New
			European Consulting Engineers Dominating Europe
		The Triumph of Science … eh, Professionalism
			Science on the Rise – For a While
			A Triumphant Professional Model
			International Expansion and Replication
		“The Accountants Are Coming!”
	12. Growth and Diversification of Management Publishing
		Publishers: Expansion, New Establishments, and Restructuration
			Wiley, Harper, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill
			Other Already Established Publishers
			Entrants and Restructuration
		The Business Press: Circulation Figures Taking Off
		Academic Journals: New Titles and the Move to Publishing Firms
			New Foundations: Expansion and Specialization
			Significant Papers Published by the Entrants
			Further Additions to the Field
PART IV: Markets Reign
	13. The Business School and the MBA Become “Global”
		US Business Schools: A Transforming and Spreading Model
			Becoming More Market-driven at Home
			Accreditation: A US Institution Expanding – and Replicated – Internationally
			Media Rankings: Defining and Measuring Reputation
		Globalizing the “Business School” and the “MBA”
			Expansion in Europe: Still in Different Ways and to Varying Degrees
			Expansion in Asia and Latin America: Governments Intervene
			New Areas of Expansion
		Internationalization
	14. Consulting as Global Big Business
		The End of Engineering? Kind of…
		IT and its Beneficiaries: Established Actors and Newcomers
			The Accountants: Forward to the Past?
			From the Margins to the Center of the Field: IT Firms
			The Marginal and Ephemeral: Inside Out and “Fast Five”
		Strategy and Organization Consulting: Melting Ice Cubes?
	15. Mergers and Mass Markets in Media
		Publishers: Concentration among Multinational Multimedia Companies
			Wiley, Harper, Macmillan, and McGraw-Hill: Considerable Changes
			Further Restructuration of the Field
		The Business Press: Changing Ownerships in Booming Markets
		Academic Journals: Scholars and Publishers in Interaction
			Another Dozen FT45 Journals
			Significant Papers and Author Origins
			Further Growth in Journals
		Looking Ahead
	16. Conclusions: Commoditizing Management?
		Processes: The Trajectories of the Three Fields
			From Survival to Legitimacy and Authority
			Toward a Single US-dominated Global Model?
			From Missionary Zeal to Market-orientation
		Outcomes: Turning “Management” into a Global Commodity
		Final Considerations: Better Ways?
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