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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Christopher D. McKenna
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 673 - 679
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2001. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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