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Mimicry and Revival: The Transfer and Transformation of Management Knowledge to India, 1959-1990

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  • Nidhi Srinivas

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This paper examines the early transfer of management knowledge to India, with particular attention to the relationship between the institutional context and the content of management knowledge. It identifies a shift in the relationship with foreign management knowledge, from mimicry to revival, from adopting U.S. models to identifying uniquely Indian equivalents. The initial transfer process encouraged researchers to eventually identify a body of management knowledge recognizably "Indian." The argument is that rather than treating Indian management knowledge as a fixed essence, it should be seen as an active construction, the effect of the initial transfer process and the consequent creation of elite institutions and an academic class.

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  • Nidhi Srinivas, 2008. "Mimicry and Revival: The Transfer and Transformation of Management Knowledge to India, 1959-1990," International Studies of Management & Organization, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(4), pages 38-57, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:38:y:2008:i:4:p:38-57
    DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825380402
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    1. Lourens van Haaften, 2021. "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, , vol. 58(3), pages 333-359, July.
    2. Ojha, Abhoy K. & Tarakad Venkateswaran, Ramya, 2022. "Understanding the colonial roots of Indian management thought: An agenda to decolonise and theorise for Indian contexts," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 700-712.
    3. Rai, Soumi, 2012. "Human resource management and labour relations in the Indian industrial sector," Discussion Papers, Research Group Globalization, Work, and Production SP III 2012-301, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

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