Management Education in India

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).

“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)

• Chapter 1. The State of Management Education in India: Trajectories and Pathways R. Rajesh Babu and Manish Thakur.- PART I: Management Education: Locations and Hierarchies.- Chapter 2. A Postcolonial Critique of Indian’s Management Education Scene  Nimruji Jammulamadaka.- Chapter 3. From Management Institution to Business School: An Indian Journey  Anup Sinha.- Chapter 4. Management Education in India: Avoiding the Simulacra Effect Abhoy K. Ojha.- PART II: Disciplines in Management.- Chapter 5. Maslow or Mahabharat? Dilemmas in Teaching Organizational Behaviour in management institutes of India Jacob Vakkayil.- Chapter 6. Management of mathematics or mathematics of management: Quantitative methods in management  Megha Sharma and Sumanta Basu.- Chapter 7. Teaching economics in a management school: Some personal quandaries Partha Ray.- Chapter 8.Business Can’t Be as Usual: Ethics and Business Bhaskarjit Neog.- Chapter 9. Keeping up with the finishing school myth: The role of communication in contemporary Indian management education Pragyan Rath.- Chapter 10. Law and business: Comparative perspectives  R. Rajesh Babu.- Chapter 11. (Invisible) disciplines:  Sociology and management Manish Thakur.- Chapter 12. Business history: Travails and Trajectories Rajesh Bhattacharya.