TY - BOOK ID - 5389434 TI - The world's newest profession : management consulting in the twentieth century. PY - 2006 SN - 9780521810395 0521810396 9780511511622 9780521757591 9780511226038 0511226039 9780511224782 0511224788 0511511620 9780511224119 0511224117 9786610550456 661055045X 0521757592 1107385652 9781107385658 1280550457 9781280550454 0511225466 9780511225468 0511309376 9780511309373 110715894X 9780511222771 0511222777 PB - Cambridge Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - Consultants KW - Business consultants KW - Consulting firms KW - Conseillers de gestion KW - Sociétés de conseil KW - 65.012.4 KW - Management. Directorate. Technique and methods of management KW - 65.012.4 Management. Directorate. Technique and methods of management KW - Sociétés de conseil KW - Consulting services KW - Business enterprises KW - Service industries KW - Efficiency engineers KW - Management advisory services KW - Management consultants KW - Business analysts KW - Interim executives KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5389434 AB - In The World's Newest Profession Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century. Although management consulting may not yet be a recognized profession, the leading consulting firms have been advising and reshaping the largest organizations in the world since the 1920s. This groundbreaking study details how the elite consulting firms, including McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen & Hamilton, expanded after US regulatory changes during the 1930s, how they changed giant corporations, nonprofits, and the state during the 1950s, and why consultants became so influential in the global economy after 1960. As they grew in number, consultants would introduce organizations to 'corporate culture' and 'decentralization' but they faced vilification for their role in the Enron crisis and for legitimating corporate blunders. Through detailed case studies based on unprecedented access to internal files and personal interviews, The World's Newest Profession explores how management consultants came to be so influential within our culture and explains exactly what consultants really do in the global economy. ER -