The world's newest profession : management consulting in the twentieth century / Christopher D. McKenna.

Introduction : making a career of consulting
Ecomonics of knowledge : a theory of management consulting
Accounting for a new profession : consultants' struggle for jurisdictional power
How have consultants mattered? the case of Lukens Steel
Creating the contractor state : consultants in the American Federal Government
Finding profit in nonprofits : the influence of consultants on the third sector
The gilded age of consulting : a snapshot of consultants circa 1960
The American challenge : exporting the American model
Selling corporate culture : codifying and commodifying professionalism
Watchdogs, lapdogs, or retrievers? liability and the rebirth of the management audit
Conclusion : the word's newest profession?
Notes.