What is the role of management education amid ruination on a planetary scale? Quite significant, given that dominant forms learning fuel capitalism’s imperialist tendencies, with disproportionate consequences in Global South. How, then, may we reflect our positionality as educators at institutions India? We review how contemporary infused desire for globally ranked excellence, even it seeks “Indianness” form recognition world stage. focus this ranking fetish leaves academic debris predatory...

Background Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a major yet preventable cause of poor post-operative clinical outcomes, prolonged ICU/hospital stay, increased antibiotic consumption and added cost therapy. Low- Middle-income Countries (LMICs) have disproportionately higher rates SSIs as compared to high-income countries despite various national international guidelines in place multipronged, combined interventions seldom used. The IMPRESS project aims respond this urgent need identify...

This study focuses on the people inhabiting an internal frontier of global capital marked by zone a waste landfill and its surrounding industrial belt. While external frontiers capitalist accumulation are traceable to identifiable corporations, involve ambiguous work organizational relations. We draw fieldwork at settlement near in Ahmedabad, India. weave research infrastructures with studies violence examine (re-) production these frontiers. show how state private actors inflict...

This article draws upon the work of Judith Butler to explain how violence is deployed against vulnerable consumers. It examines a site in which commercial complex including shopping mall be constructed Ejipura, Bangalore (India), by displacing poor from their slums. offers insights into mechanisms violent dispossession that inhere liberal modes governance Moreover, this study attends derealization desubjectifies further helps comprehend why remains zone ellipsis without any popular revulsion it.

In this study, we examine the conflicts and unintended consequences that arise from diverse social conventions constituting a transformative service. We draw on convention theory an ethnographic study to interpret community-based palliative care initiative in Kerala (India) as service system. contribute research by developing dialectical system framework is synthesis of calculative conflict-ridden regime justice noncalculative agape based love. framework, has civic at its core industrial,...

Abstract In this study, we surface the problems of representation mainstream organizational theory encounters in documenting and telling accounts subaltern actors social transformation. We explore how writing practices that draw on feminist postcolonial literary traditions can transform studies change. Drawing three texts—Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi , Urmila Pawar's The Weave My Life, Arundhati Roy's Ministry Utmost Happiness —we reflect may represent lives others. Inspired by these writers,...

Abstract We examine the emergence and evolution of collective action frames in palliative care movement Kerala, India. do so by leveraging secondary data published over seventeen years as well interviews with thirty actors. Our findings suggest two key themes: First, that emerge at grass-roots level, many occasions from bystanders, can become dominant a movement. Second, frame alignment processes may be directed non-elites towards elites. These diverge prior literature which emphasizes roles...

Technology and entrepreneurship are often reckoned to be the twin-horses pulling national economies towards their developmental destinations. based enterprises (TBEs) specially attractive policy-makers because of higher potential for job creation wealth-generation through business growth as well lower disappearance rates compared non-technology firms. As new technologies developed in R&D institutions, it was such institutions Western nations that first took initiative providing incubation...

This study explores how heterogeneous actors produce solidarities to address institutionalized infrastructural inequalities. We trace fifteen years over which diverse constructed community palliative care infrastructure in Kerala, India. analyse engaged solidarity processes of recognizing interdependences, reconfiguring spaces and re-imagining accountability challenge exclusionary institutions construct inclusive at different scales. foreground solidarity-making as an indispensable yet...

In this commentary, we reflect upon twenty years of disability research in the Indian workplace and identify possibilities for new conversations terrains inquiry. We trace key frames, theories, methodological tendencies that demarcate scholarship. suggest researchers can open inquiry by situating context, exploring heterogeneous forms organising arrangements, connecting relations interactions with wider institutional sociopolitical discourses. conclude reflections on inclusion otherwise.

Drawing upon feminist scholarship, this study offers insights into how respectable consumption exacerbates precarity and contributes to normalisation of sexual violence in Delhi, India. It helps uncover androcentricity respect that has been under-examined marketing theory. This research identifies androcentric discourse izzat or as a key discursive apparatus enframes against women. In discourse, women are carriers family traditions honour. Moreover, norms get situated within alterity is...

Martin Parker recently auto-critiqued his book Against Management. reflected on the book’s circulation, responded to some criticisms, and proposed a manifesto for School of Organizing that must emphasize alternative organizational forms. I highlight Eurocentric frame permeates auto-critique. This Eurocentrism manifests as settled geographies, histories, epistemic practices. Such knowledge practices truncate possibilities radically imagining alternatives contemporary crises capitalism. borrow...

A recommendation of: Denis Tagu, Françoise Boudet-Bône, Camille Brard, Edith Legouy, Frédéric Gaymard qualitative and multicriteria assessment of scientists: a perspective based on case study INRAE, France https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7961579

When and where do social innovations emerge? We address this question using comparative historical analyses of organizing for palliative care in India. Although made in-roads into different parts India the 1980s, it evolved as a vibrant sector only state Kerala, through novel community-based approach. By examining conditions, we reveal how poisedness, particularly political time place manifests genesis propagation innovation. contribute to literature on macro-foundations by illustrating an...

In the present study we asked: how do institutional discourses, as represented in mass media such newspapers, confer identities upon a traditionally marginalised collective those with disability? To answer our question, examined Indian newspaper discourse from 2001 to 2010, time period between two census counts. We observed that disability identities—that of welfare recipient, human rights, is vulnerable, and engages miscreancy—were ascribed through selective highlighting certain aspects...

<ns4:p><ns4:bold>Background</ns4:bold>: The community form of palliative care first constructed in Kerala, India has gained recognition worldwide. Although it is the subject important claims about its replicability elsewhere, little effort gone into studying how this might occur. Drawing on translation studies, we attend to under-examined aspects transfer a intervention new geographic and institutional context.</ns4:p><ns4:p><ns4:bold>Methods</ns4:bold>: Over period 29 months, conducted an...

Community-based palliative care services and their integration with public health systems are of considerable contemporary interest. However, the conflicts that emerge in such a complex organizational field comprising multiple stakeholders diverse interests remain under-examined. Our analysis community-based Kerala identifies four 'logic conflicts' indicate competing frames reference an field. These shape decision-making coordination manifest as: 1) professional versus community logics, 2)...

Subject area Public Sector Management. Study level/applicability MBA or postgraduate program courses in public policy and management. on social innovation, entrepreneurship collective entrepreneurship. Management development programs for professionals, non-governmental organizations enterprises. Case overview Despite several country-wide campaigns to improve sanitation levels, India continues be the country with highest number of people, over 600 million, practicing open defecation. This...

We explore the temporalities that shape and alleviate serious health-related suffering among those with chronic terminal conditions in Kerala, India. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork between 2009 2019, we examine entanglements waiting for care within dominant institutions community organizing palliates this waiting. Specifically, people navigate multiple medical institutions, experience loneliness abandonment, loss of autonomy, delays denials recognition as they wait care. Community...

Background: The World Health Organization Astana Declaration of 2018 sees primary healthcare as key to universal health coverage and gives further support the goal building sustainable models community palliative care. Yet evaluating benefits such continues pose methodological conceptual challenges. Objective: To explore evaluation issues associated with a community-based care approach in Kerala, India. Design: An illuminative case study using rapid methodology. Methodology: Qualitative...

In this paper we provide a report of the insights from round table held at Indian Institute Bangalore (IIMB) on August 28, 2009. The table, organized by N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) IIMB, brought together distinguished and eclectic panel scholars to converse about domain business entrepreneurship history India, perspectives that they had gathered over decades research, broad themes hold promise rich research possibilities, gamut methodological approaches...

In computer vision and image processing the surveillance of Video, Virtual reality, robotic perception, compression are just a few uses for segmentation. There plethora segmentation algorithms out there right now. These new approaches to picture have been spurred on by extensive victory Deep Learning (DL). Semantic instance literature is thoroughly reviewed, with particular attention paid groundbreaking work in CNN models, architecture encoder-decoder, recurrent networks, GAN settings. This...