From higher aims to hired hands : the social transformation of American business schools and the unfulfilled promise of management as a profession / Rakesh Khurana.

The professionalization project in American business education, 1881-1941
An occupation in search of legitimacy
Ideas of order: science, the professions, and the university in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America
The invention of the university-based business school
"A very ill-defined institution": the business school as aspiring professional school
2: The institutionalization of business schools, 1941-1970
The changing institutional field in the postwar era
Disciplining the business school faculty: the impact of the foundations
3: The triumph of the market and the abandonment of the professionalization project, 1970-the present
Unintended consequences: the Post-Ford Business School and the fall of managerialism
Business schools in the marketplace.