Alternative Organisations in India

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-108-42217-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

This book studies accounts of alternative organisations in India and provides critical insights on if and why alternative organisations matter to management theory and practice, how management theory can be applied to the context of alternative organisations, and how, from an alternate organisational perspective, existing debates in management can be enriched. Some other questions examined in this book are: what are spaces of organising outside corporations? How do these alternative organisational forms challenge our assumptions about a globalised, monolithic capitalist order? How do we understand the organisational lives of those marginalised, silenced and oppressed? How can we imagine an alternative organisational reality? It includes cases from different parts of India that explore the functioning of a Special Investigation Team constituted by the Supreme Court of India, Mritshilpis (idol-makers), homeless shelters, panchayats, Shahid Hospital, Budhan Theater, Swaraj University, and organisations that promote social inclusivity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vijay, Devi

Varman, Rohit

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables and figures; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction: undoing boundaries Devi Vijay and Rohit Varman; 2. Formal and informal technologies of alternative organisational spaces within the state: an analysis of violence, wrongdoing and policing Srinath Jagannathan and Rajnish Rai; 3. Scripting alternative images: institutions, practices and scripts of the Mritshilpis of Kumortuli Devi Vijay; 4. Shelter for homeless: ethnography of invisibility and self-exclusion Ram Manohar Vikas; 5. Alternative spaces of employment generation in India: informal rules, structures, and conflicting organisational requirements Joydeep Guha and Bhaskar Chakrabarti; 6. Shaheed hospital: alternative organisation, ideology and social movement Apoorv Khare and Rohit Varman; 7. Acting for change: a circuit of power analysis of a denotified nomadic tribe and Budhan Theater's struggle for change Prateek Shah, George Kandathil and Anvika Kapoor; 8. Swaraj: an alternative university Nivedita Kothiyal; 9. Alternative organisations: spaces for contestation Ankur Sarin and M. S. Sriram; Contributors; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Vijay, Devi
Devi Vijay is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Her research explores framing processes in social movements, narratives of social entrepreneurship, community-based organising, institutional emergence and evolution.

Varman, Rohit
Rohit Varman is Professor of Marketing at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. His research interests are broadly in the fields of Critical Marketing and Consumer Culture Theory.