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- Communication
The Communications Area at IIM Indore is the largest Core Communication department across the Indian Institutes of Management, which reflects IIM Indore’s unique position as the only IIM that currently offers flagship programs at the undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive levels.
The teaching and research profile of current Communication faculty members recognizes the growing and diverse needs of management education. The Area thus comprises faculty members from diverse teaching and research backgrounds including the domains of Business and Professional Communication, Linguistics and Literature, Media and Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Diversity Studies, Film, Theater and Visual Studies.
From its initial days, the Area has added extensively to the Institute’s intellectual capital, output and contribution to management education with its range of course offerings and material, pedagogical modes and applications and management development and training programmes for executive education. Area members have actively taken up administrative responsibilities for key functions: Prof. Amrita Joshi is a member of the committee that oversees requirements for AACSB accreditation; Prof. Swatantra is the co-chair for PGP-Mumbai at the IIM Indore-Mumbai Campus; Professors Abha Chatterjee and Madhusri Shrivastava have been Members of the Board of Governors at IIM Indore; Prof. Abha Chatterjee has chaired the Institute’s Disability Centre which is now chaired by Prof. Urjani Chakraborty. Prof. Dibyadyuti Roy has been Chair of the Faculty Development Programme and is now actively engaged in the Institute’s online education initiatives, especially in the MOOCs area--he is also organizing the first ever Digital Humanities Conference in India, in collaboration with IIT Indore and under the aegis of DHAI (Digital Humanities Alliance of India). Prof. Shweta Kushal chairs the Institute’s Internal Complaints Committee and is a current member of the the Board of Governors at IIM Indore. Other than these core responsibilities, the Area members have also been active members on various review, planning and organizing committees from time to time.
- Economics
The discipline of Economics, arguably, is at the core of all management principles. Indeed the basic principles of Marketing, Financial, Human Resources, Strategic, Organization Design and General management would easily find overlap with some Economic theory. It is then essential to understand the economic and policy environment within which businesses function.
The Economics department at IIM Indore is engaged in a variety of activities. The department is significantly involved in teaching in the integrated programme (IPM) where the curriculum is benchmarked to the best of three-year Economics honours programmes in India and abroad. The other significant commitment include teaching foundation and elective courses in the two-year MBA and Executive programmes.
The department has expertise in almost all the major areas in economics such as Applied Microeconometrics, High Dimensional econometrics, Game theory and Mechanism design, Choice theory and Welfare economics, Productivity and Efficiency analysis, Development economics, Poverty and Inequality, Institutional economics, Environmental economics, Formal and Informal Labour markets, Migration, Direct and Indirect tax, International Trade, Structural Transformation and Economic Growth, Fiscal federalism and Regional economics, International finance and Banking, Monetary Economics and so on.
The faculty members of the department are actively engaged in research and have multiple publications in the following journals.
Social Choice and Welfare, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, World Development, Economic Modelling, Journal of Development Studies, Review of Development Economics, Journal of Institutional Economics, Oxford Development Studies, Oxford Economic Papers, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Food Policy, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the Operational Research Society, the Journal of Business Logistics, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Developing areas, Economic Papers, International Journal of Social Economics, Ecological Indicators, International Journal of Green Economics, Desalination and Water Treatment, Poverty and Public Policy, Review of Economics and Institutions, Keio Economic Studies, Indian Journal of Economics, Analytique, International Journal of Corporate Governance, Journal of Public Affairs, International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Finance India, Bank Parikrama, Thunderbird International Business Review, World Economics.
The department regularly offers the following elective courses across different programmes.
International Finance, Macroeconomics of Developing Economies, Indian Economy and Public Policy, International Trade, Tax Management, Competition Policy, Economics of Strategic Interaction, Monetary macroeconomics, Game Theory, Market Design, Behavioural economics, Public Finance, Environmental economics.
The department also has a strong Fellow Programme in Management (equivalent to PhD) where students go through a rigorous coursework comprising all the standard Graduate level courses like Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics, Mathematical Economics, Advanced and Applied Econometrics, International Trade, Development Economics, Growth Theory, Monetary theory and Policy, and Game Theory. The usual duration is about four years including the coursework phase. For details please check http://www.iimidr.ac.in/academic-programmes/fellow-programme-in-management-fpm/
The department continuously looks for faculty and graduate students. Feel free to contact any of the area members or write to areachair-economics @ iimidr.ac.in.
- Finance & Accounting
Finance and Accounting (F&A) Area has experienced and young faculty in all functional areas of Finance and Accounting. Area faculty has teaching, research and consulting expertise in financial accounting, managerial accounting, corporate finance, corporate governance, financial markets and institutions (including banking and insurance) and issues related to behavioral finance.
The area faculty offers a large number of electives, across post graduate and doctoral level programs, which interlink different facets of finance and accounting with various case studies and simulations involving real-time financial data. The area faculty maintains a high-end financial trading lab through which participants learning is enriched with real-time examples. Besides offerings in the long-duration programs, area faculty also offer customized executive education programs targeted at finance professionals through on-campus; on-site and broadband-based programs.
F&A Faculty members’ research explores both firm-level and economy-level financial decisions and as well examine the impact of several regulatory changes of Indian corporate sector.
- Humanities and Social Sciences
ABOUT THE AREA
The Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Area is one of the unique features of IIM Indore. The HSS Area comprised of faculty members from core disciplines in Humanities and Social Sciences, namely Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, and Sociology. The Area makes a distinctive contribution towards achieving the Institute’s vision of nurturing socially-conscious and humanistic managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs. With the growing expectation from business to shed its pure profit-making mind-set and contribute to the pressing concerns of humanity and society, the importance of HSS disciplines to the field of management education has been amplified.
TEACHING
The faculty members of the Area offer a diverse set of courses that aim to present a distinctive world-view to equip aspiring managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs develop a holistic understanding of business in the 21st century and in the days to come. The faculty members are engaged in offering various courses across all the major programmes managed by the institute. For the Integrated Programme in Management, the courses from the Area of HSS function as the programme’s building blocks during the first three years.
The Area of HSS offers both core and elective courses in Post Graduate Programme in Management (MBA), Post Graduate Programme in Management in HRM (MBA-HRM), Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP), CCBMDO, and GMPE. So far, in these programmes, the Area has offered the core courses such as Ethics and CSR, Legal Aspects of Business, Ethics in Business Management; and electives such as Corporate Governance, Essentials of Human Values, Doing Business in China, Business, Government and Society, Marketing Ethics, Insider-Outsider Perspectives, Brain Talks @ Work, Understanding Culture and Society, Geo Politics and International Business, Understanding Behavioural Dynamics in Organization, Leadership Insights from Bhagvat Gita, Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work, and Thriving at Work.
In the Doctoral Programmes, the Area has offered electives, such as Seminar Course on Marketing Ethics, Social Cognition, Psychometry and Scale Development, and Research in Public Policy.
The area is active in the field of executive educations and successfully conducted MDPs for NTPC, ONGC, ARTRAC, etc.
RESEARCH
The faculty are making pioneering contributions to re-exploring the interconnections by conducting research in the fields of Business Ethics, Marketing Ethics, Corporate Governance, Corporate and Economic Law, BRICS and Global Governance, Governance and Politics in China, Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics in Organizations, Creativity in Education, Denotified Tribes, Gender and Inclusion, Public Policy and Management, Social Identity and Cognition, Organizational Behaviour, Social Movements, and Development Studies.
As an output, the faculty members have published in high impact academic journals, such as Journal of Business Ethics, PLOS One, Journal of Psychological Research, Psychological Studies, Psychology and Developing Societies, Journal of Environmental Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Journal of Developing Areas, Economic and Political Weekly, Asian Journal of Social Science, Journal of International Business Education, International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Cognition and Emotion, Political Psychology, International Journal of Corporate Governance, International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, Internal Auditing, Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, Timing & Time Perception etc.
- Information Systems
Information Systems (IS) area is having members from multiple disciplines adding to the diversity of the group. In the era of technology disruption and data driven businesses, IS area is intensively involved in teaching and research activities in the domain of Technology Management, Analytics and Information Technology at undergraduate, post graduate, doctoral and executive education level. A range of core and elective courses are being offered by area in the domain of modern technology management and analytics. Specifically, teaching activity includes various themes like technology management, Business Intelligence, data mining, e-Commerce, Business Value of Information Systems, e-Government, Computing for Managers and Data Analytics.
IS area is involved in contemporary and contextual research themes which includes Information Systems Management, e-Government, Data Mining, Enterprise Systems, and Analytics. Faculty members have published their work in high quality journals and conferences in the mentioned themes.
A detailed list of research and teaching areas explored by IS group is as follows:
• Data warehousing and Knowledge discovery in databases | • Data Mining and Text Mining | • Business Analytics and Intelligence | • Combinatorial optimization | • Empirical modelling and Computational finance | • Emerging Technologies | • E-Learning | • Business Value of Information Systems | • Data Visualization | • e- Governance and e-Commerce | • ERP | • Big-Data | • Green ICT | • IT Strategy | • Social Network Analysis and Mining | • Social Inclusion in IS | • Recommender System
- Marketing
Marketing is an organizational function, although customer-centric, seeks the welfare of all stakeholders. Marketing, as an academic area, not just covers aspects like branding and advertising, which assist in increasing the revenues for big corporates, but it also includes aspects like “bottom of the pyramid” marketing and marketing in subsistence marketplaces. Besides, marketing discipline covers issues like sustainability as well, which is a matter of larger concern to our society. The marketing department at IIM Indore is not just focused on the above-mentioned issues, but also it is committed toward world class and contextually relevant marketing research and education. Currently, the department is served by thirteen full-time faculty members. The faculty members in the area have obtained doctoral degrees/fellowships from leading institutions in India and abroad. Area members have published their research works in some of the highly reputed international and Indian academic journals in business management. In addition, area members have authored teaching cases, simulation exercises, books, and book chapters as well. Books authored by one of the faculty members are highly regarded by B-schools across India and abroad.
The area members research engagements involve the following contextually relevant aspects: channel management, channel relationships management, business-to-business marketing, mobile and digital advertising, consumer advocacy, tourism studies, customer relationship management (CRM), strategic marketing, marketing in emerging markets, brand management, design perception, behavioural judgement and decision-making, consumer information sharing, word-of-mouth (WOM), pricing, behavioural pricing, reference price, sports marketing and sports management. In addition, faculty members are actively engaged in socially relevant research areas like marketing in subsistence marketplaces, sustainability, and green marketing. Besides, area members regularly contribute research papers to conferences organized by apex academic associations in marketing area like American Marketing Association (AMA), INFORMS, JAMS etc. Area members main methodological expertise involve experimental design, structural equation modeling (SEM), latent variable analysis, qualitative research, choice modeling, meta-analysis etc.
Area members’ teaching interests include Brand Management and Advertising, Services Marketing, Marketing Research, Sales and Distribution Management, Marketing Analytics, Business to Business Marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Rural marketing, Qualitative research, Relationship Marketing and CRM, Digital Marketing, Pricing, Sports Marketing and Sports Management etc. The area embraces contemporary participant-centric pedagogies and teaching methods. Area members have developed teaching cases, games, simulation exercises, which are contributed to the repositories managed by institutions and publishers like Ivey, IIMA Case Centre, Journal of International Business Education etc.
Area members are actively engaged in management development programs (MDPs) and consultancy. Area members have successfully conducted MDPs for organizations like Ambuja Cement, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Star Daichi Life Insurance, Godrej Agrovet and National Academy of Defence Production, The Indian Railways Institute of Transport Management, Pepsi, Reliance Capital, Ircon, Exide, Meril Life etc.
Through research and teaching, the marketing area at IIM Indore aspires to significantly contribute to the future of society, nation, organizations, and learners.
- Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques
Teaching (Doctoral, Post graduate and Executive Education)
The Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques area of the Indian Institute of Management Indore consists of faculty members with diverse academic backgrounds and interests, including Operations Research (OR), Decision Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Probability and Stochastic process, Data Science and Operations Management (OM). Faculty members of the area are involved with teaching and research on theory, algorithms and applications on topics including, but not limited to, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Inventory Theory, Production Systems, Queuing Theory, Hospital Management, Healthcare Delivery, Mathematical Programming, Optimization, Theory of Constraints, Game Theory, Network Design and Analysis, Data Science, Mathematical Modelling, Simulation, Statistical Modelling, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Bayesian Inference, Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Volatility Models, Revenue Management, Mathematical and Statistical Finance. The area members teach core and elective courses across the entire breadth of academic programmes offered by the Institute. Area members are also actively involved in crafting in company training programmes for private and public-sector organizations. Faculty members are also part of multiple governmental and private sector consulting projects.
Research
The research issues addressed by faculty members are diverse and include developing new techniques in Statistical Process Control, Acceptance and Importance Sampling, etc. apart from advancing the theory and practice in the areas of OM and SCM with a focus on Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Statistical Science and Learning, Process improvement (using Lean thinking, Six Sigma) and Logistics and Supply chain Management etc. The prominent areas of research are:
Agriculture supply chains | Bayesian Methods using MCMC | Computer experiments | Consumer Decision Making | Design and analysis of experiments | Financial time series analysis | Fractional Stochastic Processes | Game Theory | Hospital Management | Humanitarian supply chain | Industry 4.0 | Inventory Management | Inventory theory | Levy processes | Maritime industry | Mathematical Finance | Manufacturing strategy | Ship routing and scheduling | Operations Management | Partial differential equations with real-world applications | Process improvement | Queuing Theory | Reverse logistics | Service operations management | Simulation | Statistical modelling | Statistical Process Control | Stochastic optimal control | Stochastic processes | Subordinated stochastic processes | Supply Chain Management | Survey Sampling and inference
The faculty members are also guiding multiple student industry projects and doctoral dissertations. Currently, the area is mentoring thirteen doctoral students (9 FPM and 4 FPM-Industry). Faculty members are also involved in developing managerial cases from primary as well as secondary material. These cases are actively utilized as teaching aids in the postgraduate and management development programmes.
Special initiative by the area
The OM & QT area has initiated a Data Analytics teaching and research module at IIM Indore. An industry expert panel discussion was conducted to understand the market demand and courses required. Another initiative involves starting a research group on Maritime Logistics with some industry members. The aim is to develop a knowledge and research community for the logistics sector in India.
- Organizational Behaviour & HRM
Teaching (Post graduate and Executive Education)
The Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management area of Indian Institute of Management Indore is composed of faculty members of diverse backgrounds. The faculty members have academic and research interests ranging from understanding individual and group behaviour, human resource practices in transnational organizations, contemporary views on labour and industrial relations, etc. The area members teach core and elective courses across the entire breadth of academic programmes offered by the Institute. Area members are also actively involved in crafting in company training programmes for private and public sector organizations. Faculty members are also part of multiple governmental and private sector consulting projects.
Research
Faculty members are involved in disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research and have published in influential high impact academic journals such as Human Resource Management; Journal of Business Ethics; International Journal of Human Resource Management; International Journal of Operations & Production Management; Economic and Industrial Democracy; Personnel Review etc. The prominent area of research are:
• Subordinate Superior Communication | • Team performance | • Leadership | • Human Resource Flexibility | • Managing Human Capital in Projects | • HR Practices in Family Business | • Organizational Learning | • Organizational and Group Psychological Capital | • Organisation Design | • Organizational Structures and Processes | • Social Network Analysis of Groups and Organizations | • Performance Management | • Marginal Workers and Precarious Labour | • Complexity Theory | • Negotiations | • Industrial Relations and Disciplinary Processes | • Business Ethics
The faculty members are also guiding multiple student industry projects and doctoral dissertations. Currently, the area is mentoring twenty doctoral students (13 FPM and 7 FPM-Industry). Faculty members are also involved in developing managerial cases from primary as well as secondary material. These cases are actively utilized as teaching aids in the postgraduate and management development programmes.
Special initiative by the area
The OB&HRM area of Indian Institute of Management Indore supports a niche two-year post-graduate program titled PGP-HRM. The program is rooted in business rationalities and aims to hone the skills of participants in various functions of human resource management. More information is available on the program page of the website.
- Strategic Management
There are nine faculty members in the Strategic Management Area. Diversity is central to the area, and its key strength. Faculty members bring in extensive industry experience in operations, regulation, manufacturing, and consultancy from prior roles in the government and private sectors.
The Strategic Management area faculty have research interests in business ethics, business history, business models, complexity theory, entrepreneurship, globalization and its effects, innovation, international management, mergers and acquisitions, public sector management, strategic decision making, top management teams, etc., in a very diverse set of industries that includes FMCG, manufacturing, media, telecom and transportation. Area members have published in leading journals like Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Computational and Mathematical Organization theory, Decision, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of World Business, MIT Sloan Management Review, Thunderbird International Business Review among others.
Faculty members of the Strategic Management area have extended consulting services to international agencies like World Bank and UNDP, central and state government ministries, public sector organizations, and the private sector. Faculty members have authored books and book chapters on Strategic Management, International Business and Best Business Practices.
The area offers two doctoral programs, one full-time, residential program and one part-time non-residential doctoral program for participants working in the industry. Our doctoral fellows have been placed at some of the leading management institutes in the country including IIMs Lucknow, Amritsar and Sirmaur and Thapar University. Some others have returned to their parent organizations in the government—for example, Income Tax and BSNL—to positions of enhanced responsibilities. As of 2018, the area has an enrolment of nine doctoral students in the full-time residential program, and ten candidates in the industry doctoral program.
The area offers compulsory courses in Strategic Management covering business strategy in Term II and corporate strategy in Term III for the flagship MBA program. Besides this, the area also offers over twenty electives courses for second year MBA students, covering International Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Models, Strategy Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Competing with Capabilities, E-Business Strategy, etc. Most recently, the area has been offering Strategy Simulation as an elective to expose students to the integrative way in which businesses work and function.
