The World's Newest Profession : Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century

Introduction: making a career of consulting 1. Economies of knowledge: a theory of management consulting 2. Accounting for a new profession: consultants' struggle for jurisdictional power 3. How have consultants really mattered? The case of Lukens Steel 4. Creating the contractor state: consultants in the American Federal Government 5. Finding profit in non-profits: the influence of consultants on the third sector 6. The gilded age of consulting: a snapshot of consultants circa 1960 7. The American challenge exporting the American model 7. Selling corporate culture: codifying and commodifying professionalism 9. Watchdog, lapdog or retriever? Liability and the rebirth of the management audit Conclusion: the explosion of consultants.