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A New Perspective for Industrial Competitiveness: Exploring the Role of IITs

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Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness

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Changing worldwide contexts and discontinuity can create opportunities for catch-up for India. Building on a long and exciting journey of competitiveness research, I give a glimpse of context and elements of a new perspective on industrial competitiveness. For that, trends in competitiveness journey of India and select countries are reviewed. Glimpse of emerging competitiveness perspective that focus more on human factors and cooperation, and seem to give better guidance, is given. While actions are needed by many stakeholders, we focus on opportunities and implications for young professionals who are keen to shape competitiveness across continuum.

This paper is improved version of the paper presented at and included in the proceedings of the 11th Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management (GLOGIFT11) at IIM Kozhikode, Dec. 2011.

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Acknowledgements

I acknowledge support of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India to National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE). Financial support from IIT Bombay, Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre for competitiveness research project is acknowledged. Cooperation from several colleagues at the DMS, IITD, particularly Prof. Sushil and Prof. S. S. Yadav, was crucial in building the “Strategy and Competitiveness Lab,” where we initiated and completed several projects and experiments. Cooperation from several young coordinators and participants in the competitiveness survey done across India is gratefully acknowledged. This paper builds on data published in journals (e.g. Yadav and Momaya, 2010; Momaya, 2011a) and presented at competitiveness seminars to get feedback. I thank participants who gave us feedback.

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  1. Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management and National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India

    Kirankumar S. Momaya

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  1. Strategic Management Area, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Kunnamangalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

    M. K. Nandakumar

  2. Quantitative Methods and Operations Management Area, Indian Institute of Management Kozhlkode, Kunnamangalam, Kozhlkode, Kerala, India

    Sanjay Jharkharia

  3. Finance, Accounting and Control Area, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Kunnamangalam, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

    Abhilash S. Nair

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Momaya, K. (2014). A New Perspective for Industrial Competitiveness: Exploring the Role of IITs. In: Nandakumar, M., Jharkharia, S., Nair, A. (eds) Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness. Flexible Systems Management. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1668-1_7

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