Read more
Studies accounts of alternative organisations in India and provides critical insights on why they matter to management theory and practice.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.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.
Summary
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, debates in management can be enriched.
