B-Schools in India Lacking Proper Research Ecosystem: Can We Regenerate the Skeleton

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to find out exactly why and where we lag in ‘Research’ in Business Schools (B-Schools)? And how can we, within the ambit of existing challenges, build up a research eco -system that could do something to address societal issues hovering for years, also simultaneously extend our findings to the industrial units for not only making them more competitive and innovative but also socially more responsible and relevant besides seeking standard researches from the B-Schools.
Management Education, although no more elite, as it belongs to the common Indian citizen, is still however understood as a lead runner amongst all modern professional streams of the twenty first century. With our nation aspiring to become a part of the elite ‘developed’ group by 2047, we need to understand the challenges and opportunities facing our B-Schools or Management education units of our Universities and Technical Institutions as of now, specially related to Research. It is so because we understand, a strong, vibrant and robust research eco-system is one of the guiding ways to prosperity of the human kind which we all aspire. As happens with our societal diversity and ethnicity, we also intend to put the hue of prosperity and development to our B-School environment. No other nation perhaps in the world is better prepared for the challenges posed by diversity as ours. And when such a diversity hovers around, we get a wide range of issues – related to behavioural dimensions, social and economic kaleidoscope, innovation quotient, spiritual spreads, the dimensions are endless!
But then why most of our B-Schools have been keeping themselves out of the platter arranged by our environment for coming out with solutions to the problems existing in society, mind it, corporate sector too happens to be a part of our social system! And we must believe, research provides solutions to umpteen problems that deter growth and arrest prosperity.