Management Education in India
Perspectives and Practices
Editors: Thakur, Manish, Babu, R. Rajesh (Eds.)
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This volume problematizes different facets of management education in India---pedagogy, curricula, and disciplinary and institutional practices---from the perspective of the Global South. The essays in this volume bring out the institutional challenges of crafting a relevant academic programme that converses with both national specificities and global realities. Coming from diverse academic specializations, the contributors traverse the interface of their respective disciplines with management education. In doing so, they engage with the ongoing global debate on management education. This volume fills a noticeable gap of serious, scholarly reflection on the state of management education. While there have been sporadic reflections and occasional critiques, a critical stocktaking of the institutional and disciplinary aspects of management education has been long wanting. This volume is of interest to scholars and practitioners of management education across the globe, and is likely to generate debate on its contemporary relevance and future trajectory.
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Manish Thakur is Professor at the Public Policy and Management Group of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata. Previously, he was lecturer in sociology at Goa University (1997-2007) and was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla (2011-13). His published research deals with aspects of water resources management, rural development knowledge institutions and discourses, research-policy interface, political culture, place of sociology in management education, social movements, intellectual history and indigenous theories. His recent books are Indian Village: A Conceptual History (2014) and The Quest for Indian Sociology (2014).
R. Rajesh Babu is Associate Professor and Group Coordinator of the Public Policy and Management Group of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Decision---the IIM Calcutta flagship journal of management. He obtained his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Rajesh has been a global scholar in-residence at the Graduate Institute (IHEID), Geneva in 2011. His published research, research and teaching interests are in international economic law, arbitration and adjudication, corporate liability, constitutional law, property rights, and law and public policy. His recent book is Remedies under the WTO Legal System (Martinus Nijhoff, Boston/Leiden 2012).
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“I believe that Management Education in India is a good introduction to business/management studies in India … this book is important for further studies, not only to analyse the influences of localisation, but also to research the ways dominant discourses remain reproduced in institutions of higher learning in India.” (Maziar Jafary, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, January, 2018)
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The State of Management Education in India: Trajectories and Pathways
Pages 1-20
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A Postcolonial Critique of Indian’s Management Education Scene
Pages 23-42
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From Management Institutes to Business Schools: An Indian Journey
Pages 43-53
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Management Education in India: Avoiding the Simulacra Effect
Pages 55-77
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Maslow or Mahabharat? Dilemmas in Teaching Organizational Behaviour in Management Institutes of India
Pages 81-90
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Management Education in India
- Book Subtitle
- Perspectives and Practices
- Editors
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- Manish Thakur
- R. Rajesh Babu
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Singapore
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-10-1696-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-10-1696-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-10-1695-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-10-9423-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 228
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics