Yale - Great Lakes Center for Management Research

Great Lakes Institute of Management has been bringing the best brains in the world of management to India with an objective to provide world class management education.

We have tie-ups with eminent universities of international repute. One such initiative is Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management Research, started in partnership with Yale University of USA. This center aims to promote, facilitate and advance India-centric management related research which contributes to the development of basic and applied knowledge in the field of management. The center will be a bridge that links scholars around the globe with India as a common interest.

Some definitive steps towards this objective include inclusion of greater research component in the post graduate program through an empirical study; promoting collaborative research among students in association with other universities; publishing Great Lakes Herald, a journal in the area of management; organizing an international annual research conference and strengthening of research environment and infrastructure.

International Association for Indian Management Research (IAIMR)

Management education and training have become highly popular. Yet, there is not a systematic body of management knowledge to explain how Indian firms operate and why some have achieved phenomenal results. Existing evidence shows that management practices imported from outside have not been effective in India. How Indian companies and the Indian workforce in aggregate are able to sustain the levels of performance over the past several years remains an intellectual puzzle that begs for a scholarly explanation. It is the wish to solve this intellectual puzzle and to fill this knowledge gap that seeded the idea for the International Association for Indian Management Research (IAIMR).

IAIMR aims to promote, facilitate, and advance the field of Indian management research by scholars both inside and outside India. It will provide a forum for the intellectual exchange, mutual learning, and collective pursuit of questions about firm behavior and individual behavior within firms in the rapidly changing Indian landscape. Knowledge generated will be useful not only to broaden the effective management of firms in India but also, more importantly, contribute to the body of management knowledge globally.

Scholars interested in India have both the obligation and the opportunity to develop this field not only through their personal involvement in research but also, more importantly, through the development of the next generation of scholars. IAIMR can be an invaluable resource in fulfilling this critical responsibility. IAIMR will be the instrument to facilitate and promote international collaboration in the intellectual development of India-centric management research that will add significant value to global knowledge.

IAIMR is a professional, academic organization to serve scholars, students, managers, and consultants who are interested in advancing knowledge about management of organizations operating in the Indian context. The primary goal of the organization is to promote scholarly studies of organization and management of firms in the Indian context.

Specific Goals

• To provide a forum for exchange of ideas and experience among researchers about management research in the Indian context.
• To facilitate international collaboration between management researchers from around the globe.
• To promote the development of management research capabilities in and on India.

Research Domain

• Scientific analyses of individual and group behaviors within firms and firm behaviors in the Indian context.
• Cross-cultural or comparative analyses of individuals, groups and organizational level issues of firms inside and outside the Indian context.
• Most importantly, creative methodologies, new theoretical developments, and cross-disciplinary analyses of individual, group, and firm phenomena.

Important Activities

• Annual research conference with invited speakers and paper presenters from all over the world.
• A quarterly “IAIMR Newsletter” that will contain abstracts of India-centric empirical studies in the area of management, published in various journals.

To become a member of IAIMR, please send email to iaimr-subscribe@googlegroups.com.

For further information or feedback, please contact
Ms. Preetha Menon
Coordinator
Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management Research
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai
Email: iaimr@greatlakes.edu.in
Phone: +91-44-42168228 - Extn: 117