Professor, Department of Management Sciences
Office
Department of Management Sciences
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Fellow in Management, IIM Ahmedabad, 1994
M.Tech, IIT Kharagpur, 1987
B.Tech., Pantnagar, 1985
MBA 611: ORGANISATION STRUCTURE & BEHAVIOUR
MBA 617: SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF BUSINESS
MBA 716: Introduction to Corporations (3-0-0-0-5)
MBA 717: Governance of Global Value Chains (3-0-0-0-5)
Examining the Origins and Nature of Corporations, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2005. Review of: Organizing America: Wealth, power, and the origins of corporate capitalism by Charles Perrow (Princeton: Princeton University Press and Oxford, 2002).
Selected Writing:
Kanpur Leather Cluster Revisited after a Decade (With Manali Chakrabarti). Aspects of India's Economy, No. 72 & 73, pp. 48-63, May-2018.
Tamil translation
Labour in Global Value Chains: A Study of the Leather and Footwear Manufacturing Cluster of Kanpur (with Manali Chakrabarti). Aspects of India's Economy, No. 72 & 73, pp. 21-47, May-2018.
Tamil translation
Aarthik Vraddhi ka Rahasya (with Manali Chakrabarti), Vaikalpik Aarthik Varshiki, Bharat, KN Kabra, V Upadyay & Dhruv Narayan (eds.). Delhi: Daanish Books, 23-30, 2010.
Industrial Clustering and Cooperation: The Kanpur Saddlery Cluster (with Mridula Dwivedi). Indian Industrial Clusters, Keshab Das (ed.), 123-142. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005.
Workers’ Struggles in the Times of Globalisation: A Critique of Trade Unions in Historical Perspective (with Manali Chakrabarti). Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2003, 46, 4, 667-684.
The unbridled power of corporations and why we should be worried, Podcast: Suno India, Nov 30, 2021.
The Horror that is India: Why Is the Ruling Establishment Simply Incapable of Responding Any Other Way to the Pandemic? Rsearch Unit for Political Economy, May 2021.
Tamil translation
Recent Amazon Revelations: What do they tell us about the ongoing farm protests? Rsearch Unit for Political Economy, March 2021.
Telugu translation
Labour in the Time of Corona. Research Unit in Political Economy, May-2020.
Maruti Manesar: Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold? Countercurrents.org, August 2012.
Contract Workers at IITK: A Response to Commonly Held Misconceptions. Sanhati Journal, 7, May 2010.
Satyam and the Truth about CSR. InfoChange News & Features, March 2009.
Why are we Against the Reservations? eSocialSciences, May 2006.