The theme:“Strategic Management in Emerging Economies” is of great topical interest and relevance in a globalized world. From the point of view of a scholar this is a terrain rich with concepts to be addressed; for the practitioner, it is a terrain thick with problems waiting for redress. Let...

The agenda is as follows. We begin with why PPPs are relevant to you, why are you here today at all. PPPs are a complex phenomenon, so our next step is to understand what PPP is all about, is it just a fad, or a useful policy option? This leads us to understand PPPs from two perspectives, first...

Is modern management relevant beyond the corporate boardrooms of developed economies? This book boldly attempts to marry Total Quality Management strategies to social sector initiatives in emerging economies. The challenges of Indian school education are diagnosed vis-a-vis TQM application in...

This comprehensive case study on Bangalore International Airport enumerates in a sequence, in stages and phases the role of people involved who finally make up a mega project. Episodes of people, evaluation of process, procedures and systems and the final call of polity are dilated with...

This paper examines the concept and strategies of Total Quality Management (TQM), in order to develop a model of TQM based school education for implementation in primary education in India. It begins with a description of challenges of Indian education. After defining the concept of TQM, a...

1. The Motivation: Public Private Partnerships are attracting attention in both scholarly and policy discourses. They are an increasingly popular public policy option in developed and developing economies. If PPPs are here to stay, we need to know what happens in a real life scenario. Academic...

This paper is a study of Public Private Partnerships as a product of intelligent design and strategy elements. It constructs an integrative theoretical framework for infrastructure PPPs based on a comprehensive literature review. The Public Private Partnership is a public policy entity, sired by...

This presentation was made in the International Public Policy Conference in IIM Bangalore in August 2013. It traces the complex and meandering process of land acquisition and the micro managerial processes of decision making for the Bangalore international Airport. The qualitative case study...

Though PPPs attract widespread media attention, there is little clarity in the public mind about what is a Public Private Partnership. There is certainly no consensus about what outcomes we can expect from a partnership, or how we can execute them successfully; not just in the popular or policy...

Bangalore city saw unprecedented growth in the 1980s and 90s, in size, population and global importance. This derived chiefly from its positioning as a centre for Information Technology and associated industries. Even as the world watched this amazing growth in wonder, Bangalore’s own response...