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

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 673-679

  McKenna, Christopher D ^a  

^a BRASENOSE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85008560205     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: 14672235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1467222700005322     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. “Advisers on Advisers,” Business Week (9 April 1930), 42.
2. Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell, “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields,” American Sociological Review 48 (April 1983): 152.
3. The role of management consultants as conduits for organizational ideas was first proposed in Homer Hagedorn, “The Management Consultant as Transmitter of Business Techniques,” Explorations in Entrepreneurial History 7 (Feb. 1955): 164–173.
4. William B. Wolf, Management and Consulting:An Introduction to James O. McKinsey (Ithaca, N.Y., 1978).
5. Popular accounts of management consulting include Hal Higdon, The Business Healers (New York, 1969)
6. Daniel Guttman and Barry Willner, The Shadow Government (New York, 1976)
7. John Micklethwaite and Adrian Wooldridge, The Witch Doctors:Making Sense of the Management Gurus (New York, 1996)
8. James O'Shea and Charles Madigan, Dangerous Company:The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses they Save and Ruin (New York, 1997).
9. Firm-sponsored histories include Jim Bowman, Booz, Allen & Hamil-ton:Seventy Years of Client Service, 1914–1984 (Chicago, 1984)
10. Marvin A. Bower, Perspective on McKinsey (New York, 1979)
11. David Neal Keller, Stone & Webster, 1889–1989:A Century of Integrity and Service (New York, 1989)
12. E. J. Kahn, Jr., The Problem Solvers:A History of Arthur D. Little, Inc. (New York, 1986).
13. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass., 1962), 381–382.
14. J. J. Servan-Schreiber, The American Challenge (New York, 1968), 8
15. Matthias Kipping, “American Management Consulting Companies in Western Europe, 1920 to 1990: Products, Reputation, and Relationships,” Business History Review 73 (Summer 1999): 190–220.