DEFINING MANAGEMENT Business, Schools, Consultants, Media

• Main Authors: Kipping, Matthias (Author), Matthias Kipping (Author), Behlül Üsdiken (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2016
• Subjects: Management > History; Management > Study and teaching > History; Business education > History; Business schools
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Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and households to its current ubiquity, focusing in particular on the role of business schools, consultants, and business media in this process.How did an entire industry develo...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: the rise of management
• Background: Views on the development of management
• Approach: Three "fields" in historical, comparative, and integrative perspective
• The emergence of schools of commerce
• Accountants and efficiency engineers as early consultants
• Modest beginnings for business publishing
• Establishing a place for business education
• Old certainties and new departures in consulting
• Broadening audiences for business publications
• Making business education scientific
• The assertion of management consulting
• Growth and diversification of management publishing
• The business school and the MBA become "global"
• Consulting as global big business
• Mergers and mass markets in media
• Conclusion: commoditizing management?