Should B-schools add a sociological perspective?

The author, currently a professor at an IIM, rightly turns his introspective gaze on these types of questions

Sociology and Management Education

Author: Manish Thakur

Publisher: H Routledge

Pages: 114

Price: Rs 5,028

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other leading business schools (B-schools) in India and the world are seen to be doing everything right in terms of the topics they cover in their syllabuses as judged by the starting salaries their students get as well as speed with which every year’s batch is placed. But this book raises a few questions worth a debate.

For instance, a faculty member in any IIM knows that his career progress will be speeded up the more research papers he gets published in American academic