Alternative Organisations in India
Undoing Boundaries

Studies accounts of alternative organisations in India and provides critical insights on why they matter to management theory and practice.

Devi Vijay (Edited by), Rohit Varman (Edited by)

9781108422178, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 February 2018

264 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.48 kg

'Overall, it is refreshing to read about different instances of alternative organisations in India. Unlike many edited volumes, the chapters here are quite consistent in terms of their rigour and quality of discussions that inform them.' Manish Thakur, DECISION

This book 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, existing debates in management can be enriched. Some other questions examined in this book are: what are spaces of organising outside corporations? How do these alternative organisational forms challenge our assumptions about a globalised, monolithic capitalist order? How do we understand the organisational lives of those marginalised, silenced and oppressed? How can we imagine an alternative organisational reality? It includes cases from different parts of India that explore the functioning of a Special Investigation Team constituted by the Supreme Court of India, Mritshilpis (idol-makers), homeless shelters, panchayats, Shahid Hospital, Budhan Theater, Swaraj University, and organisations that promote social inclusivity.

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.

Subject Areas: Organizational theory & behaviour [KJU], Management of specific areas [KJMV], Entrepreneurship [KJH], Business & management [KJ]