Management discipline is highly field oriented requiring strong focus on research. The current scenario is characterized by digitization, collaboration and novel measures to assess the impact of research.

1. Trends & Importance of
Research in current scenario

2.  Opening remarks
 Imperatives for research
 CurrentTrends
 Implications of these trends
 Competencies expected
 Closing remarks

3.  Developments at the global level are taking
place very rapidly
 Unless there is serious research, it is difficult
to keep track of these developments and
translate these outcomes into classroom
 Global integration after 1990- Indian
academics also needs to be integrated

4.  If somebody relies on teaching and cases
developed by someone else, it looks artificial
 There is no guarantee that what is in Philip
Kotler’s book is applicable in India or in
emerging markets !
 Management Faculty has to be research
active!

5.  Consideration for higher positions in good
management schools not possible unless there is
good number of quality journal publications
 Funding is not possible unless good publications !
 Incentives based on publications!
 Publications not possible unless there is research !

6.  Focus is hardly on publication in the research
program. At times working papers ,in house
are taken as research publications

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Good, Bad & Ugly !
Good
•Positive attitude towards
doing research
• Require less time preparing
for class & Spend more time
on scholarly work
•“No complaints” attitude
•Prepared to hear criticism
•Get compliments from
Research community
Bad
•Confused about expectations
• Feels isolated amongst research
community
•Scholarly work only verbal priority, low
actual time
•lecture only & content focus
•Not amenable to criticism
Ugly
•Negative attitude about research
•No focus on research at all
•Criticize publications of the peers
•Bad in teaching also
•Not comfortable in dealing with
students

8. Teaching
Training
Consulting
Research

9. Sn Journal From
1 Vikalpa IIMA
2 Decision IIM Kolkata
3 Metamorphosis' IIM Lucknow
4 IIM B review IIM Bangalore
5 Indore Management Journal IIM Indore
6 Journal of Advances in
Management Research
IIT Delhi
7 Udyog Pragati NITIE, Mumbai
8 Productivity National Productivity Council , Delhi
9 Management & Labour Studies XLRI Jamshedpur
10 Vision MDI Gurgaon
11 IIMS J of Mgmt Science IIM Shillong

10.  The profile of researchers in in the country is
by and large not very encouraging
 Disconnect between researcher in India and
the Global community
 Not able to penetrate into high quality
original/novel research as recognized by the
international community

11. Four types of research projects pursued for
doctoral work:
Questionnaire based empirical research
Anecdotal research on some specific region or area
which analyses the data and makes conclusions in a
journalistic style
Case studies in a specific organization and to suggest
improvements using known methods
Quantitative/mathematical models on oversimplified
context of reality or extensions of work done by
researchers in developed world.

12.  Highly qualitative: Anecdotal based on hear-says, stories or
experience sharing by senior managers
 Highly quantitative based on mathematical modeling focusing on
OR like models, theorems and lemmas. At times far more complex
than the need to do that. Complex model for routine operational
problems and vice versa. Strategic decisions still based on hunch.
 Case -studies based: Based on real life application of known
concepts published in practical journals like the HBR or simulations.
 Statistical analysis ,hypothesis testing using SPSS,Lisrel based on
instruments such as questionnaires. Hypothesis to be tested are
almost axiomatic at times. Reproducibility of results not assured.
 Soft systems approach; System dynamics modelling,ISM, SWOT
analysis,SEM.The recent statistical tools have added esthetic value
to output through colorful charts diagrams, graphs which makes
even ordinary research finding look impressive.

13.  “If you know the outcome of your research, then
you are not doing research”-Einstein.
 Hypothesis:”The relationship between Emotional
Intelligence and job performance will be stronger for
individuals whose job involves greater amount of
interpersonal interaction”-
 Hunch says true, So says the research findings.
Axiomatic hypothesis testing.(Source
Vision,Vol.14,no.4,Oct.-Dec.2010,pp.250-252).
 There is no new light by such like researches.
 Statistical packages available such as SPSS,LISREL have made
research look in depth.

14.  To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to
achieve new insights into it
 To portray accurately the characteristics of a
particular individual, situation or a group
 To determine the frequency with which
something occurs or with which it is
associated with something else
 To test a hypothesis of a causal relationship
between variables

15.  Desire to get a research degree along
with its consequential benefits
 Desire to face the challenges in solving
the unsolved problems
 Desire to get intellectual joy of doing
some creative work
 Desire to be of service to society
 Desire to get respectability

16.  Good research is systematic
 Good research is logical
 Good research is empirical
 Good research is replicable

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 Good research is systematic- structured with
specified steps taken in specified sequence in
accordance with well-defined rules
 Good research is logical: logical reasoning makes
research more meaningful in the context of
decision making
 Good research is empirical: dealing with concrete
data that provides the basis for external validity to
research results.
 Good research is replicable

18.  Interconnected world: Millions of ideas
getting generated, developed and
disseminated
 Faster publishing cycle
 Web enabled submission, review and
publication process
 Shelf life of an idea has shortened
considerably !

19.  You have to update continuously
 You must know the state-of-the-art
 You have to be comfortable withTechnology
(IT)
 You have to innovate continuously
 Literature review ?

21.  You can not hide yourself in the digital
universe
 Someone is going to measure you !
 You are constantly indexed
 You are also under constant onslaught of new
and emerging ideas !
 Hardly any manual intervention !

22.  Web 1.0
 Mp3.com
 Britannica Online
 Personal website
 Publishing
 Stickiness
 Web 2.0
 Napster
 Wikipedia
 Blogging
 Participation
 Syndication

24.  Total citations: 67
 Average citations :7.44
 H-Index: 15
Authors Title Journal Total citation Average Citations Per year
Suresh Pvs, Rao PV,
Deshmukh SG
A Genetic Algorithmic Approach
for Optimization of Surface
Roughness Prediction Model
International
Journal Of Machine
Tools &
Manufacture 42(6)
, 675-680, 2002
67 7.44

25.  Sharing of information
 Institutional
collaboration
 Professional networks
 Social networks

26.  Sharing of information/Knowledge made
easy
 “Open source” paradigm
 You must collaborate
 Your collaborator may be from anywhere in
the globe!
 Be comfortable with power & influence of
social media !
 “Research 2.0 “ ?

27.  Open access improves educational
experience
 Open access democratizes access to research
 Open access advances research
 Open access improves visibility and impact of
scholarship !

28. • Authors and institutions
• Visibility; increased communication;
international exposure and peer-recognition
• Cost of publishing and use – affordability?
• Readers
• Accessibility, affordability
• Good Publishers getting converted into OA
• Oxford University Press – OxfordOpen
 Journal of Nucleic Acids,Journal of Botany
• Springer – Open Choice
• Blackwell – Online Open
• Elsevier – hybrid model for six Physics Journals

29.  Pentabytes of data circulating the web
 Information needed fast
 Information flows freely
 Researchers “networked” socially
 New tools available
 New metrics of citations
 Directory of open access journals
www.doaj.org
 Example: International J of Management &
Strategy

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Research comprises the following:
 Defining and redefining the problem
 Formulating hypothesis
 Collecting, organizing and evaluating data
 Making deductions and reaching conclusions
 Carefully testing the conclusions to
determine whether they fit the hypothesis

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 Significant in solving various operational and
planning problems of business and industry
 Market research (investigation of the structure
and development of market)
 Important for formulating policies for purchase,
production and sales
 Deep insights into strategy formulation and its
impact
 As a means to influence society

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 Aid to Informed decision making
 Helps identify problem areas
 Aid to forecasting
 Helps business budgeting
 Tool for efficient production and investment
decision making
 Optimal utilisation of resources
 Basis for innovation

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 Competition – local, domestic and global
 More complex business organizations
 Stakeholders demanding greater role
 Growth of Internet
 Growth of technology and greater computing
power
 AdvancedAnalytical techniques

34. For rise in academic hierarchy
For enhancing quality of pedagogy
For increase in reach
For gaining acceptance in the academic
community
For making some difference !
For making some impact !

36.  Citations
 Usage
 Inclusion of research in courseware/
Training material
 Media comment
 Implementation in Practice
 Transformation of Research for new audience
 Awards
*Source http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/impact/index.htm

38.  Intellectual competencies
 Future-building competencies
 Management competencies
 Relationship competencies
 Personal competencies
 Source: Discussion with Prof R P Mohanty,VC,
Shiksha-o-Anusandhan Univ, Bhubneshwar

39.  Research is imperative
 Technology has made research easy as well as
challenging
 Quality metrics associated with research
 Limited shelf life, digitization and collaboration
acts as drivers for research
 Academic life incomplete without research
 Teaching-research-training-consulting : a virtuous
cycle for management academia
 Various competencies desired from researcher !

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41. Thank you very much !
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Wish you a Happy Researchfull career !