Indigenous Indian Management: Conceptualization, Practical Applications and Pedagogical Initiatives

This book reflects on the growing appetite for plurality in management knowledge that addresses the problems important to business and society. Over the last three decades, India’s rapid economic growth has helped to make it a leading economy of the world. The social and cultural setting of India is unique because of its diversity, large population, and social and economic stratification. India is a living culture of more than three thousand years that simultaneously embraces traditional and contemporary beliefs and practices. From world trade to climate change to democratization, India’s actions have a global impact. Reviewing management literature in the Indian context, this book attempts explaining and addressing the problems important to business and society. This book has three primary aims: to identify and describe the insights from traditional culture of India relevant to management, to report on the Indian institutional dynamics and its reflection on management and to present pedagogical initiatives that integrate the wisdom of Indian culture and tradition with contemporary management knowledge. In light of these objectives, this book will be relevant to management scholars, educators, and practitioners, particularly in the areas of organizational behavior, human resource management, strategic management, marketing, entrepreneurship, and international management.

Ashish Pandey, Associate Professor, with Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, has more than 30 research articles in the leading journals and handbooks in the areas of spirituality at work, yoga and mindfulness in OB, interface of business and society.

Pawan Budhwar is Head of Aston Business School, UK, and the Co Editor-in- Chief of Human Resource Management Journal. He is the co-founder and first president of Indian Academy of Management. He has published over 150 articles in leading journals and written and/or co-edited over 25 books.

Dharm P S Bhawuk, Professor of Management and Culture and Community Psychology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA, has published more than 100 papers and books including Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Training (2020), Indian Psychology: Lessons from the Bhagavad-Gita (2011), and Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology (1996).