Books:
Christopher D McKenna, The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Book chapters:
Christopher D McKenna, “Give Professionalization a Chance! Why Management Consulting May Yet Become a Full Profession,” in Stephen Ackroyd, Daniel Muzio, and Jean-Francois Chanlat, New Directions in the Study of Expert Labour: Medicine, Law and Management Consultancy (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
Christopher D McKenna, “Mementos: Looking Backwards at the Honda Motorcycle Case, 2003-1973,” in Steven Usselman and Sally Clarke (eds), Festschrift in Honor of Louis Galambos, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Reprinted in the Boston Consulting Group’s alumni magazine, ePanorama (June/July 2004).
Christopher D McKenna, “Why Every American University has a ‘Dean of Students’: The Role of Management Consultants and the Carnegie Foundation in the Standardization of American Universities,” in Giuliana Gemelli, ed, University Foundations: Historical Roots and Institutional Configurations (Bologna, Baskerville Press, 2005), 43-68.
Christopher D McKenna, “Management Consulting,” in James Grossman, Ann Keating, and Jan Reiff, eds, The Encyclopedia of Chicago History (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Christopher D McKenna, “Message and Medium: The Role of Consulting Firms in Globalization and its Local Interpretation,” (with Marie-Laure Djelic and Antti Ainamo) in Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack (eds), Globalization and Institutions: Redefining the Rules of the Economic Game (Edward Elgar, 2003) 83-107.
Journal articles:
Christopher D McKenna, "Writing the Ghost-Writer Back In: Alfred Sloan, Alfred Chandler, John McDonald and the Intellectual Origins of Corporate Strategy," Management and Organizational History, Vol 1, No 2 (May 2006):107-126.
Christopher D McKenna, “INQUIRE: A Case Study in Evaluating the Potential of Online MCQ Tests in a Discursive Subject,” (with Sophie Clark, Katharine Lindsay, and Steve New), ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, Vol 12, No 3 (September 2004): 251-262.
Christopher D McKenna, “The World’s Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century,” Enterprise & Society, Vol 2, No 4 (December 2001): 673-679.
Christopher D McKenna, “Two Strikes and You’re Out: The Demise of the New York Herald Tribune,” The Historian, Vol, 63, No 2 (Winter 2001): 287-308.
Christopher D McKenna, “‘Le Défi Américain:’ McKinsey & Company’s Role in the Transfer of Decentralization to Europe, 1957-1975,” (translated into Italian) in Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine (Spring 1999). Reprinted in Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (1997), 226-231.
Christopher D McKenna, “‘Better Living Through Chemistry?’ Industrial Accidents and Masculinity at DuPont, 1890-1930,” Entreprises et Histoire, No 17 (December 1997): 9-21.
Christopher D McKenna, “Agents of Adhocracy: Management Consultants and the Reorganization of the Executive Branch, 1947-1949,” Business and Economic History, Vol 25, No 1 (Fall 1996): 101-111.
Christopher D McKenna, “The Origins of Modern Management Consulting,” Business and Economic History, Vol 24, No 1 (Fall 1995): 51-58.