Moss Kanter, corporate sociologist: Rosabeth Moss Kanter brings a whiff of the 1960s to her study of corporate life. (Management Theorists: Part 4)
Economist (US), The, October, 1994
Kanter differs from most business consultants and authors, in that she has a Phd in sociology and did her thesis on 19th century utopias. She sees similarities between the goals of utopias and corporations. She teaches at Harvard Business School and has written three books.
MOST management gurus learn their craft by taking MBAs and serving time in business schools or consultancies. Rosabeth Moss Kanter learnt hers hanging around in the counter-culture, rubbing shoulders with the sort of gurus who believe in founding communes rather than re-inventing corporations. Her academic training was not in business or economics but in that quintessentially counter- cultural subject, sociology. Her doctoral thesis dealt with 19th- century Utopian communities, such as the Shakers....
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