Rakesh Khurana
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 249409 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rakesh Khurana |
| NOMBRES | Rakesh |
| APELLIDO | Khurana |
| FIRMA | KHURANA R |
| AFILIACIONES | Harvard Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4493-1742 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 75 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital
This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the "neoliberal common sense of capital," what others have called the "shareholder value" view of the American firm. Jensen's work was embraced by a generation of corporate raiders aggressively advancing new financial prac…
Management as a Profession
Assertions of managerial professionalism date as far back as the origins as management as an occupation in the late nineteenth century, as managers of large corporations presented themselves as stewards of the nation's economic resources. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, first a managerial and then a market logic pushed aside the professional identity of managers. As a result, management as currently practiced does not qualify a…
The New CEOs
From social control to financial economics
Types and Positions
This article aims to make a case for using Georg Simmel's ideas to illuminate features of organizational life that connect individuals, groups, organizations, and society. It first summarizes three related aspects of Simmel's approach to social action that are relevant to organizational research: his method of using ‘pure types’ for describing social roles; positions for locating social actors in relation to each other; and structure for describi…
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated fro…
Product Review
Managing Elites
Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets
Searching for a Corporate Savior
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the CEO selection process. Rakesh Khurana's findings are surprising and di…
Market Triads
From social control to financial economics
Managing Elites
The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital
This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the "neoliberal common sense of capital," what others have called the "shareholder value" view of the American firm. Jensen's work was embraced by a generation of corporate raiders aggressively advancing new financial prac…
Market Triads
Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets
Searching for a Corporate Savior
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the CEO selection process. Rakesh Khurana's findings are surprising and di…
Market Triads
Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated fro…
Product Review
Managing Elites
Types and Positions
This article aims to make a case for using Georg Simmel's ideas to illuminate features of organizational life that connect individuals, groups, organizations, and society. It first summarizes three related aspects of Simmel's approach to social action that are relevant to organizational research: his method of using ‘pure types’ for describing social roles; positions for locating social actors in relation to each other; and structure for describi…
The New CEOs
From social control to financial economics
Management as a Profession
Assertions of managerial professionalism date as far back as the origins as management as an occupation in the late nineteenth century, as managers of large corporations presented themselves as stewards of the nation's economic resources. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, first a managerial and then a market logic pushed aside the professional identity of managers. As a result, management as currently practiced does not qualify a…
The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital
This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the "neoliberal common sense of capital," what others have called the "shareholder value" view of the American firm. Jensen's work was embraced by a generation of corporate raiders aggressively advancing new financial prac…
Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 obras) · Social science (5 obras) · Economic Theory and Institutions (4 obras) · Public relations (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras)