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Indian Management (?): A Modernization Experiment

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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.

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Jammulamadaka, N. (2019). Indian Management (?): A Modernization Experiment. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Management History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62348-1_66-1

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