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Managing India: The Idea of IIMs and its Changing Contexts book cover

1st Edition

Managing India The Idea of IIMs and its Changing Contexts

Edited By R Rajesh Babu, Manish Thakur Copyright 2024
306 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

306 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

306 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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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. Over the past decades, IIMs, as institutions, have recalibrated their goals and priorities to address... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgements

1.     IIMs: Footprints, and Footsteps into the Future

R Rajesh Babu and Manish Thakur

PART I: IIMs: BETWIXT THE NATIONAL AND THE GLOBAL

2.    The Making of the First IIMs: Management School as a boundary object?

Lourens van Haaften

3.    Institutional Influence of Management Education in Contemporary India: A Prismatic View

Anup Sinha and Runa Sarkar

4.    Internationalization of Business Education: Challenges and Opportunities

            Jacob Vakkayil

5.    Signaling Quality: The Quest for International Ranking and Accreditation

Biju Paul Abraham

6.    Indian Public Business School: Pathways to Embracing Contradictions and Reclaiming Self

Nimruji Jammulamadaka

7.    Reimaging IIMs: NEP 2020 and the Changing Institutional Governance

              Manish Thakur and R Rajesh Babu

PART II: IIMs: THE INSTITUTION AND THE PROFESSION

8.    Indian Institutes of Management: An Uneasy Equilibrium?

Rajiv Kumar and Vidyanand Jha

9.    Evolving Landscape of Management Education and Employability: Challenges and Contradictions

Amit Dhiman, Abhishek Goel and Megha Sharma

10.   Bell the ‘CAT’: A Relook at the Common Admission Test

Megha Sharma and Sumanta Basu

11.   Academic Skating on Thin Ice: Mysteries of Traversing the Absurd, Bizarre and Comical Pathways to the Future

Ajeet N. Mathur

12.   An Ethnographic Reflection of a Professor: Searching for “Relevant” Knowledge

Biswatosh Saha

13    Entrepreneurship in India: A Management Perspective

                   Balram Avittathur

PART III: IIMs: THE IDEA AND ITS MULTIPLE RENDITIONS

14.   From Farmland to Management Institute: The Making of IIM Calcutta’s Joka Campus

Annapurna Shaw

15.   IIMC and the City: Distinctively Coupled

Venkataraman S

16.   A Gramscian reading of IIM-Calcutta’s Decision

Nidhi Srinivas

Index

Biography

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 (co-editor Srinivas Burra, 2018) and Management Education in India: Perspectives and Practices (co-editor Manish Thakur, 2017).

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).

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