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https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/5089| Title: | Indian Management (?): A Modernization Experiment |
| Authors: | Jammulamadaka, Nimruji Prasad |
| Keywords: | History of Management Education in India Colonial Legacy in Indian Education Postcolonial Management Studies Indian Management Thought |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2020 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Abstract: | This chapter explores the history of the emergence of management as a discipline and professional practice in India. By tracing the history of commerce education into the British period, the chapter argues that modern management in India emerged with a strong association with English language in the midst of the colonial encounter. Postindependence in 1947, this English emphasis continued. It grew through the import of a discipline from United States of America, under the modernizing aspirations of a newly independent country struggling with inferiority and developmental challenges. And in order to meet India’s development challenges, Indianizing management was attempted by invoking ancient Indian texts, or adapting models and techniques to India’s socio-economic and cultural context. Nevertheless, management in India has remained tethered to core Western management theories and concepts. |
| Description: | Nimruji Jammulamadaka, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India p. 1331–1350 Book description:The coronavirus pandemic of 2019-20 and its associated global economic collapse has bluntly revealed that decision makers everywhere are ill-equipped to identify the innovative capacities of modern societies and, in particular, deploy managers to harness such capabilities. Getting the problem of management right is a voyage to the heart of human experience. Indeed, the perennial questions that haunt our existence almost invariably prompt answers that invoke conceptions of work, transformative effort and realisation of ideas. One way or another, all such endeavour requires management. It is often overlooked that more than any other discipline, management history brings into focus humanity’s most pressing questions. At the time of writing, these queries come with a disquieting urgency. What is management? How do its modern methods differ from those in pre-industrial societies? How does the management that emerged in Western Europe and North America in the nineteenth century differ from forms practiced in the twentieth? In what ways do Asian, African and South American societies have distinctive managerial philosophies? Perhaps most importantly, what don’t we know or don’t do very well? It is to these fundamental questions that the Palgrave Handbook of Management History speaks. The work’s 63 chapters – authored by 27 of the world’s leading management and business thinkers – explore virtually every aspect of management globally as well as across millennia. The series explores the theoretical contributions of classical Western business and management scholars (Adam Smith, Frederick Taylor, Elton Mayo, Peter Drucker, Alfred Chandler, etc.) as well as commentaries from critical theorists such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Hayden White. The Handbook is also practical. For example, its content addresses the day to day experience of management in ancient Greece and Rome as well as the contemporary approaches of China, France, South Africa,India, Denmark, Australia, South America, New Zealand and the Middle East. In short, the Palgrave Handbook provides students of economics, management, business theory and practice, and critical studies with a single comprehensive and in-depth point of reference. Book details: The Palgrave Handbook of Management History Editors: Bradley Bowden, Jeffrey Muldoon, Anthony M. Gould, Adela J. McMurray |
| URI: | https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/5089 https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-62114-2_66 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-319-62113-5 |
| Appears in Collections: | Organizational Behavior |
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