New Paradigms in Contemporary Management Education in India

Across the globe a degree in business management is highly coveted as it is perceived to open doors to opportunities and high-paid jobs and India is no exception. However, with the increased inclination towards gaining management degrees and a rapid increase in number of BSchools in the country a big question mark raises not only on the quality of management education and its relevance but also on the acumen of MBA aspirants and students pursuing MBA degrees.The top b-schools in India admit candidates through stringent selection criteria and then impart relevant and contemporary management education. On the other hand admissions in many other institutions are neither stringent nor rigorous and therefore the competency of pass-outs remains a question mark. Management education is facing multiple challenges in maintaining its relevance and keeping pace with changing demands of the industry. Although issues such as the quality of faculty and infrastructure concerns the entire academia but discussions must also take into consideration the quality of MBA aspirants, mushrooming B-schools and loop holes in regulation of professional education. The current paper aims at finding some of the important challenges andissues concerning management education in India in the changing times while discussing examples, lessons and insights from the state of Madhya Pradesh. The scope of the paper covers years from 2008 to 2012.The paper also discusses ‗Sallis‘ quality imperative model in educational establishments in Indian context.

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Output Quality in Management Education in India - An Honest Introspection

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2056257 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

V. G. Sarangan

Keyword(s):

Management Education ◽

Output Quality ◽

Education In India

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Management Education in India: Issues & Challenges

Adhyayan A Journal of Management Sciences ◽

10.21567/adhyayan.v4i1.10194 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Pankaj Kumar Malviya

Keyword(s):

Management Education ◽

Present Situation ◽

Quality Education ◽

Job Market ◽

Men And Women ◽

Education In India ◽

Emerging Issues ◽

Management Institutions ◽

Context Specific ◽

Positive Effect

Management education attracts young men and women, who are usually motivated by the positive consequences. There are more than 3,500 management schools in India, but all of them are not capable of providing quality education. In the last decade a number of B- Schools opened up, because people involved in this industry consider it as the easiest way to make money. But in the last 3 to 4 years, a large number of Business-schools find it difficult to fill complete intake capacity of their MBA or PGDM programs (except top B-schools). The major reason of this downfall was the effect of recession (worse conditions of job market). Prior to that, management education had very positive effect among youths, but now the scenario has changed and the young graduates are going for other courses instead of MBA. About two thousand B-schools have empty MBA or PGDM seats. Interest of applicants is missing, even after heavy expenses on advertisements, seminars, education fairs etc. Recession, in reality, has lot more things for the management institutions to learn and act for the future. It is necessary for Indian B- Schools to make management education context specific. This paper tries to explore the present situation of management education in India. This paper also studies the trends prevailing in management education in India, and also tries to find out the implications of it on the industry and on the individuals. Further, it tries to study emerging issues of management education, and to find implementation of possible direction and policy towards improvement of management education in India.

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Management science and nation building: The sociotechnical imaginary behind the making of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad

The Indian Economic & Social History Review ◽

10.1177/00194646211020308 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 001946462110203

Author(s):

Lourens van Haaften

Keyword(s):

Business Education ◽

Management Education ◽

Nation Building ◽

Management Science ◽

Indian Institute ◽

Management Knowledge ◽

Education In India ◽

Development Trajectory ◽

Distinct Character

The start of management education in India in the early 1960s has been dominantly described from the perspective of ‘Americanisation’, characterised by isomorphism and mimicry. Existing scholarship has avoided the question of how management education and knowledge were reconciled and naturalised with India’s specific socio-economic contexts. This article addresses the issue and provides a situated account of this complex history by delving into the establishment of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, one of India’s first and most prominent management schools. Using the concept of sociotechnical imaginary developed by Jasanoff and Kim, the analysis describes how the development of management education and research was aligned with the objective of nation building. The article shows that the project to start management education did not take off before the capitalist connotations, associated with business education, were subtly removed and a narrative was created that put management education in the context of India’s wider development trajectory. Under influence of a changing political atmosphere in the late 1960s, a particular imaginary on the role of management knowledge and education unfolded in the development of the institute, giving the field in India a distinct character in the early 1970s.

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