Managing India

ISBN-13: 9781032342849 / Twarda / 2024 / 248 str.

Opis

This book explores the history and metamorphosis of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the premier business and management schools in India, and their significance within the changing landscape of higher education, nation-building and socio-economic development in the country.

Spis treści

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1.  IIMs: Footprints, and Footsteps into the Future PART I: IIMs: BETWIXT THE NATIONAL AND THE GLOBAL 2. The Making of the First IIMs: Management School as a boundary object? 3.  Institutional Influence of Management Education in Contemporary India: A Prismatic View 4. Internationalization of Business Education: Challenges and Opportunities 5. Signaling Quality: The Quest for International Ranking and Accreditation 6. Indian Public Business School: Pathways to Embracing Contradictions and Reclaiming Self 7. Reimaging IIMs: NEP 2020 and the Changing Institutional Governance PART II: IIMs: THE INSTITUTION AND THE PROFESSION 8. Indian Institutes of Management: An Uneasy Equilibrium? 9. Evolving Landscape of Management Education and Employability: Challenges and Contradictions 10. Bell the ‘CAT’: A Relook at the Common Admission Test 11. Academic Skating on Thin Ice: Mysteries of Traversing the Absurd, Bizarre and Comical Pathways to the Future 12. An Ethnographic Reflection of a Professor: Searching for “Relevant” Knowledge 13. Entrepreneurship in India: A Management Perspective PART III: IIMs: THE IDEA AND ITS MULTIPLE RENDITIONS  14. From Farmland to Management Institute: The Making of IIM Calcutta’s Joka Campus 15. IIMC and the City: Distinctively Coupled 16. A Gramscian reading of IIM-Calcutta’s Decision. Index

O autorze

Manish Thakur is a Professor at the Public Policy and Management Group of IIM Calcutta. He is the author of Sociology and Management Education: Engagements and Agendas, 2021. He has co-edited Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions (co-editor Maitrayee Chaudhuri), 2018 and Management Education in India: Perspectives and Practices (co-editor R Rajesh Babu), 2017.

R Rajesh Babu is a Professor at the Public Policy and Management Group of IIM Calcutta. His select publications include, Remedies under the WTO Legal System, 2012; Locating India in the Contemporary International Legal Order 2018 (co-editor Srinivas Burra); Management Education in India: Perspectives and Practices 2017 (co-editor Manish Thakur).