Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Project Director, Finland-India Economic Relations (2005-09)

Formerly,
EU-Tempus Professor of European Integration and Internationalisation

Founding Professor of International Business, University of Tampere

IFCI Chair Professor,
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi

Professor,
Indian Institute of Management
Calcutta

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Scholar

Senior Fulbright Scholar in Development Economics

Visiting Professor,

Helsinki School of Economics, Finland

K.U. Leuven, Belgium.

University of California, Berkeley



Professional Affiliation
1. Consulting in human response development, Organisation Development and the design of institutions.

2. Studies in governance, competitiveness and international economic relations for international organizations such as ILO, WHO, ADB and for public and private enterprises in strategic management. Advisory roles in strategic planning for sustainability and development of local and regional governance units in India, Europe and U.S.A.

Area of Research
Research interests include policy integration, strategic management, governance, competitiveness, international economic relations, sustainable communities, harmony, group relations and management of intellectual and social capital and organizational knowledge.

Current Research
Behavioural Foundations of Economics

How product markets and labour markets affect each other

Finland-India Economic Relations

Missing Markets in World Trade

Sui generis protection of traditional knowledge

Business, Governance and Society:constitutional, labour, social security and intellectual property rights laws.

Publications/ Articles/ Cases
List of some important publications follows:

LIST OF SELECT PUBLICATIONS (not a complete list) as on 15.6.2007

A. Articles in refereed scientific journals

A.1. 'Whose future? Dilemma of the Gandhian Eskimo', Futures 39 (2007), 895-901.

A.2. 'Lost in Frankenstein Detail: The Unravelling and Salvaging of Strategy from the wonderland of pixies, goblins, angels and Santa Claus', Review of Professional Management, 4(2) 2006, 10-16.

A.3. 'Politics of disharmony in the management of gender differences' (co-authored with Anja Salmi), Vikalpa, 31 (3) 2006, 81-93.

A.4.'Managing Intercultural differences, Or Doing as the Romans (or Finns or Indians) do?' (co-authored with Sari Joutsimäki), Review of Professional Management, 4(2), 2006, 1-9.

A.5. ‘Conflicts between sustainable economic growth and shareholder value in international value chains’, Fortune Journal of International Management, 2005, Volume 2, No.1, 141-160.

A.6. ‘How small is beautiful and how large would be ugly ? The question of optimal size, spatial demarcations and risk calculus for sustainable local governance’, in RIVISTA – Italian Journal of Social Policy, 2005 (2).

A.7. ‘The Changing Role of the Firm with regard to Governance, Competitiveness, and International Economic Relations’, in Abhigyan, Volume XXII, No. 1, April-June 2004, .

A.8. ‘Bioprospecting opens up a megabillion industry’ in Biospectrum, 2004 (2) March, 36-39.

A.9. ‘The Changing Role of the State with regard to Governance, Competitiveness, and International Economic Relations’, in Review of Professional Management, 2003 (1), 1-10.

A.10. ‘Designs of Healthcare Trade’ in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXIX, No. 20, 2004, 2036-2048.

A.11. ‘Who Owns Traditional Knowledge ?’, in Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXVIII No. 42, 2003, 4471-4481.

A.12.‘The Human Price of Enterprise’ in ASCI Journal of Management 28 (2), 1999, 1-12.

A.13. ‘Labour Market Flexibility: Holy Grail or Banquo's Ghost ?’, in Indian Journal of Labour Economics,Volume 37, No. 4, October-December 1994.

A.14. ‘Managing a Nation: Who is In Charge? The Market for Political Control’ (co-authored with Cynthia Van Hulle as first author), in ASCI Journal of Management, Vol 24(1), September1994, 1-13.

A.15. ‘Industrial Restructuring and Labour in Post-Maastricht Europe’, in Decision, 1995, Vol. 21, No.4, October-December.

A.16. ‘The Future of Trade Unions’, in Indian Journal of Social Work, Volume LV, No.2, April, 1994, 249-256.

A.17. ‘The experience of consultations during structural adjustment in India (1990-1992)’ in International Labour Review, Vol.132, No.3, 1993, 331-345.

A.18. ‘Technology Transfers and Organisation Development’, in Productivity Vol. 33 No.3, (Oct-Dec), 1992, 408-414.

A.19. ‘Economic Restructuring and Labour Markets: Untouched Agenda’, in Decision, Vol 18, No.4, October-December, 1991, 227-233.

A.20. ‘Managerial Productivity:Is It Measurable?’in Sydenham Management Review January, 1991 (Special Issue: Management Classics), 13-21.

A.21. ‘Economic Restructuring and Employment Security in India : Separating Facts from Folklore’, in Indian Journal of Labour Economics (Special Issue), 1992.

A.22. ‘In Search of Unicorns’, in Decision, Vol. 14, No. 4, (October-December) 1987, 181-191.

B. Scientific articles in anthologies

B.1 'Why does inter-group distrust turn violent?', in Sandra Dingli ed. Creative Thinking:Designing Future Possibilities, Malta University Press, 2007.

B.2. 'Intercultural learning from listening posts:Embeddedness, Diffusion and Evolution of subnational and supranational metacultures in Finland and India' (co-author, Sari Mattila), in S.Manikutty ed. Learning, Teaching and Research in a borderless world, Macmillan, 2007.

B.3. 'Paradoxes of Globalisation' in Ajeet Mathur ed. Dare to think the unthought known? Aivoairut, Tampere, 2006, 205-246.

B.4. ‘The Future of International Business in the Tampere Region’ in Antti Kasvio and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko (eds.), eCity: Analysing the efforts to generate local dynamism in the city of Tampere to meet the challenge of changing global economy, Tampere University Press,2005.

B.5. ‘The Hidden Competitiveness Dimensions in Government-to-Government, Intra-national and International Economic Relations’ in M. P. Gupta ed. Management Challenges and Best Business Practice for effective E-government, McGraw Hill, 2005.

B.6. ‘Inquiring Minds and Inquiry Frames’ (pages 171-186) in Partha Nath Mukherjee and Chandan Sengupta (eds.), Indigenity and Universality, Sage, Thousand Oaks, 2004.

B.7. ‘To serve or to rule: Paradoxes of shared authority and appropriated power in e-governance’ (as first author, co-authored with Jacob Matthan), pages 228-234, in M.P. Gupta (ed.) Towards e-Governance, McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2004.

B.8. ‘What Knowledge is of Most Worth ?’, Chapter 7 (pages 137-177) in William Pinar, Donna Trueit, William Doll and Hongyu Wang (eds.) Internationalization of Curriculum Studies, Peter Lang, New York, March 2003.

B.9. ‘Is e-Business in healthcare injurious to health ? Data protection problems concerning inversion of private and public spaces in designing and maintaining healthcare databases’, in Frontiers of e-Business Research, Volume I, 2002, 201-222.

B.10.‘Who Owns Traditional Knowledge ?’, in Frontiers of e-Business Research, Volume II, 2003, 295-314.

B.11. ‘Do we have to choose between employment security and labour market flexibility?’, Chapter 3 (Pages 66-83) in INDIA: Economic Reforms and Labour Policies, UNDP/ ILO-SAAT, 1996.

B.12. ‘The Improbability of Full Employment’ in Mihaly Simai (ed.) The Future of Work (Volume II, pages 154-177), Zed Books, 1995.

B.13. ‘The Exit Policy Controversy’, in L.K. Deshpande and Gerry Rodgers (ed.) The Indian Labour Market and Economic Structural Change, B.R. Publishing, 1993, 81-107.

B.14. ‘Management Dynamism: Indian Experience’, in Ikujiro Nonaka ed. Management Dynamism: A Study of Selected Companies in Asia, Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo, June 1992, 53-103.

B.15. ‘Impact of Structural Change on Employment and Wages-The Employers’ Perspective’ in A.V. Jose (ed.) Employment and Structural Change in Indian Industries , ILO-ARTEP, 1989).

B.16. ‘Effects of Legal and Contractual Regulations on Employment in Indian Industry’, in Gus Edgren (ed.) Restructuring, Employment and Industrial Relations:Adjustment Issues in Asian Industries, ILO-ARTEP, New Delhi, 1989, 153-201.

B.17. ‘HRD in India : By Whom, For Whom?’, in Towards Organisational Effectiveness through HRD, HRD Network, New Delhi, 1989, 18-25.

B.18. ‘Technology Diffusion and the Indian Labour Market: Barriers and Gateways’, in Gerry Rodgers ed. The Diffusion of High Tech and the Labour Market, ILO, Geneva, 1990.

B.19. ‘On the Management of Change and Conflict in Organisations’, in Management Concepts and Techniques, Institution of Engineers, January, 1977.


C.Books/Monographs

C.1. Dare to think the Unthought Known ?, Aivoairut Publishing, Tampere, March 2006.

C.2. Missing Markets in World Trade: The Case for Sui Generis Protection of Traditional Knowledge, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, WTO-TRIPS series, August 2004.

C.3. The role of information technology in designs of healthcare trade, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi. September, 2003.

C.4. Communities at Risk, (as first author, co-authors Markku Ryynänen, and Arne Nystedt), Series A1:Studies 48, University of Tampere, March, 2003.

C.5. Nepal , in Roger Blanpain ed. International Encyclopedia of Labour Laws and Industrial Relations, Kluwer-Deventer, June 2003.

C.6. Indo-French Economic Relations: A Study of Trade and Investment Potential, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, September 2002.

C.7. What Knowledge is of Most Worth ?, Series A1: Studies 47, University of Tampere, 2000.

C.8 Finland-India Economic Relations:A twinning study of trade and investment potential,
ETLA, Helsinki, 1998; second reprint, 2002.

C.9. Labour laws and Industrial Relations in Nepal, Kluwer, 1996.

C.10. Foreign Presence of Belgian Companies, NR 9327, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, 1993. (co-author, Reinhilde Veugelers).

C.11. Industrial Restructuring and the National Renewal Fund in India, Asian Development Bank, Manila, 1993.

C.12. Labour Institutions and Economic Development, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1993.

C.13. Economic Restructuring and Tax Reforms : The Unresolved Agenda, WPS-175(92), Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, February 1992 (as first author with co-authors, Hrishikesh Bhattacharya and Anup K. Sinha).

C.14. Compensatory Measures During Structural Adjustment in India, ILO/LEGREL, 1992

C.15. Industrial Restructuring and Union Power, ILO-ARTEP, World Employment Programme, Geneva and New Delhi, 1991.

C.16. Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Security in India, ILO, Geneva, 1991

C.17. Employment Security and Labour Market Flexibility in India, ILO, Geneva, 1991.

C.18. Green Signals, Red Flags and White Elephants : An Industrial Relations Perspective of National Choices and Consequences, Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, New Delhi, 1988.

C.19. Emerging Issues of Employment and Wages in Indian Manufacturing Enterprises, ILO-ARTEP, New Delhi, 1987.

C.20. A Study of Contractual, Legal and Customary Regulations on Hiring and Firing in Indian Manufacturing Industry, ILO-ARTEP, New Delhi, 1987.

C.21. Dynamics of Wages, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1986; Sangam Books (International Edition), 1988.

C.22. A Study of the Industrial Potential of West Bengal (Volumes I, II and III), Tata Economic Consultancy Services, Bombay, 1977 (co-authored with Hannan Ezekiel, Sankar De and D.Saha).

D.Doctoral Dissertation and Other academic theses

D.1 A Study of the Dynamics of Wage Determination of Industrial Employees, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 24.5.1983, Doctoral Dissertation.

D.2 Are Finland’s local communities sustainable without internationalisation ? Series A3:35, University of Tampere, 2001.

D.3 The role of institutions in complex humanitarian emergencies (mimeo), UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, 1996.

D.4. Do the Northern Lights Shine Brightly ? Some Late Lessons of Early Warnings from Spatial Inequalities (mimeo), UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, 2003.

E.Other publications

E.1. ‘Pienet kunnat elinkelvottomia ?’ (in Finnish, Are small communities viable ?),
Alakerta 5.11.2004, Aamulehti, 2004.

E.2 ‘Missing Markets in World Trade’, From the Ivory Tower Column, Financial Express, December 29, 2003.

E.3 ‘India And Scandinavia: Does The Twain Meet?’ (pages 2-64) in Scandinavia: Business beyond boundaries, Financial Express, July, 2002.

E.4 The role of information technology in designs of healthcare trade, (for WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, Working Group 4 on ‘Health and the International Economy’), WHO Geneva, August 2001 (mimeo, processed).

E.5. ‘India’s economic ties with Finland’, The Pioneer, September 17, 1998, p.10.

E.6. ‘The Impact of Industrial Restructuring on Labour’, in The Financial Express, February 19, 1992 and The Economic Times, August 13, 1992.

E.7. ‘Why some unemployed are unemployable’, Business World, February 15-28, 1988.

E.8. ‘Human Resource Development: Do we have the Vision?’, in AIAET Journal (Special Issue), New Delhi, 1988.

E.9. ‘Organisational Development - Unintended Consequences: Dilemma of the Internal Consultant’, in The Economic Times, April 7, 1987.

E.10. ‘Organisational Development:A Blueprint for Efficiency?’, The Manager, September, 1985, pp 1-8.

E.11. ‘National Wage Policy - A Glance through AICPI’, Business Standard, Volume XII, No. 123, July 31, 1986.

E.12. ‘Need for National Level Wage Policy’, The Economic Times, Vol. XXI, No. 167, August 19, 1981.

E.13. ‘Dimensions of Industrial Conflict - A Case Study’, Proceedings of the Seminar on Conflict Management, Shriram Centre, Delhi, 1981

E.14. ‘Issues in Wage and Salary Administration’, Department of Industrial Management, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, December, 1980 (mimeo).

E.15. ‘Organisation Development: Perspectives on Theory and Practice’, Department of Industrial Management, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, April, 1979 (mimeo).

E.16. ‘Irrigation Pricing in West Bengal’, (with Satyesh Chakraborty), State Planning Board, West Bengal April, 1977 (mimeo).

E.17. ‘On the Relative Backwardness of Regions’ (with Satyesh Chakraborty and Arun Kumar), (mimeo), IIM Calcutta, 1977.

E.18. ‘The Challenges for Public Administration in Developing Countries’, Seminar on Administrative Problems, IIM Calcutta, December 1, 1976 (mimeo).

F.Books/Chapters/Papers under publication

F.1. Finland-India Business: Context, Trends, Opportunities and Challenges (2007, forthcoming)

F.2. ‘Leveraging creative services through regional clusters: why some hubs fail and others succeed ?’ (2008, forthcoming).

F.3. ‘Seeding and Harvesting of Innovations in Intellectual and Social Capital in the Organizational Context’, (Paper presented at IFTDO, Cairo, November, 2005).

F.4. ‘Institutional factors governing Euro-India business and choice of entry modes’, (2008, forthcoming).

F.5. ‘Processual and Systemic Impediments in the care and feeding of emerging inter-disciplinary knowledge structures’, (2008, forthcoming).

F.6. ‘Knowledge sharing in missing markets at the frontiers of biotechnology value chains in international business’, (2008, forthcoming)

F.7.How do product markets and labour markets affect each other? Challenges for policy research in China and India (2007, forthcoming)

F.8. International Boundary Crossings and the Human Uses of Human Beings (Paper presented at the Bion Institute Seminar, Secundrabad, 21.2.2007).

F.9. Arenas of Innovation and the care and feeding of ideas (Paper presented at the Kemin R&D Centre , Chennai, 27.2.2007)

F.10 Institutional factors governing choice of GATS modes for services supply (ANZIBA 2006 paper)



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