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OCCASIONAL PUBLICATION 110

7 Sep 2022

The unholy trinity of the ‘patwari, thanedar and nakedar’ constituting the oppressive image of the State during colonial rule may have receded somewhat in the wake of the paraphernalia of the development machinery in place in most parts of the country now, but that does not make for an efficacious ‘developmental State’. [...] There are other (strategic) challenges that are also critical to the prospects of the Indian Republic ‘making it’ in the decades to come (apart from those of remaining on the right side of the ecology and technology dynamics, and changing economic logic, of course), such as: • the limited time for which the presently favourable demographic profile of India, with a bulge in the proportion of the po. [...] It is proposed to organise a (stand-alone) Workshop on Part I of the project in the first instance, on the Study (on structural changes in the architecture of the Indian Republic that could help in enhancing the delivery capacity of the State machinery) suggested in Section V above – on the nitty gritty aspects of the Study; namely, on how the Study is to be undertaken (concretely). [...] Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai at the request of the author, it undergirds the recommendation in this essay for a critical appraisal of the State machinery in the framework of that approach, and of the insights of Organisational Theory (OT) and Organisational Development (OD). [...] Strategic management: Strategic management is the striving, the conscious steps, on the part of the top management to bring about coherence between the actions and activities of different wings of the firm i.e., mindful orchestration of congruence in the functioning of the company.

Authors

Saurabh Kumar

Pages
66
Published in
India