Centres Of Excellence

To focus on new and emerging areas of research and education, Centres of Excellence have been established within the Institute. These ‘virtual' centres draw on resources from its stakeholders, and interact with them to enhance core competencies

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Faculty

Faculty members at IIMB generate knowledge through cutting-edge research in all functional areas of management that would benefit public and private sector companies, and government and society in general.

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IIMB Management Review

Journal of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

IIM Bangalore offers Degree-Granting Programmes, a Diploma Programme, Certificate Programmes and Executive Education Programmes and specialised courses in areas such as entrepreneurship and public policy.

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About IIMB

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) believes in building leaders through holistic, transformative and innovative education

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Faculty at IIMB are involved in several national and international research projects. As a premier business school located in India’s high technology capital, IIMB is in close proximity to some of the leading corporate houses in the country, ranging from IT to consumer product companies, giving it the added advantage for industry collaborations, research and development. IIMB’s research community, with its excellent international academic background, is committed towards making IIMB an innovative hub of research. During the academic year 2011-12, there were about 70 research projects, of which 52 were externally funded and 18 were funded by the institute. The details of current and completed projects are given below:

Research Projects

Comparing Canadian and Indian approaches to Managing Diversity in Society and Organizations
Project Team : Abhoy K Ojha
Sponsor : Indo -Canadian Shastri Institute, New Delhi
Project Status : Ongoing (initiated in 2008-09)
Area : Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management
Coordination Study of the Effectiveness of Block Resource Centers and Cluster Resource Centers
Project Team : S Nayana Tara, N S Sanath Kumar and S Ramaswamy
Sponsor : Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India & EDCIL INDIA LIMITED, New Delhi
Project Status : Ongoing (Initiated in 2008-09)
Area : Public Systems
Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE)
Project Team : K Kumar and Suresh Bhagavatula
Sponsor : Department of Information Technology, GOI
Project Status : Ongoing (Initiated in 2008-09)
Area : NSRCEL
Service Level Benchmarking for Water Supply
Project Team : Gopal Naik
Sponsor : Ministry of Urban Development as a part of COE
Project Status : Ongoing (Initiated in 2007-2013)
Area : Economics & Social Science
What Underpins Sustained Growth of Indian IT Companies?
Project Team : S Raghunath
Sponsor : Motorola
Project Status : Ongoing (Initiated in 2007-2013)
Area : Strategy
Adoption of US GAAP and IFRS in India
Project Team : R Narayanaswamy
Sponsor : Deloitte, Haskins & Sells
Project Status : Ongoing (Initiated in 2007-2008)
Area : Finance & Accounting
Endeavour: Entrepreneurial Development as a vehicle to promote European Higher Education
Project Team : Mathew J Manimala
Sponsor : Erasmus Mundus Community Program (Universita Degli Studi del Sannio)
Project Status : Ongoing
Area : Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management
Research on Creative Industries
Project Team : J Ramachandran
Sponsor : British Council of India
Project Status : Ongoing (Initiated in 2007-2008)
Area : Strategy
Corporate Social Responsibility
Project Team : Vasanthi Srinivasan
Sponsor : The British Council, India
Project Status : Ongoing (Initiated in 2007-08)
Area : Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management
Follow up activities for the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network (WGEKN) for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Project Team : Gita Sen
Sponsor : WHO ad hoc funding
Project Status : Ongoing (Initiated in 2006)
Area : Public Policy
Cotton Quality in India-Problems and Economics and Implications for Trade
Project Team : Gopal Naik and Maurice R Landes
Sponsor : US Department of Agriculture, Economics Research Service
Project Status : Ongoing (initiated in 2004)
Area : Public Policy
Electronic Business Management Consulting Business Opportunities with Specific reference to the Service Sector
Project Team : D Krishna Sundar
Sponsor : Winsoft Corporation, Denver, US
Project Status : Ongoing (Initiated in 1999)
Area : Production & Operations Management
A framework of the Next Generation Manufacturing Supply Chains
Project Team : Janat Shah
Sponsor : University of Hull Logistics Institute, UK
Project Status : Ongoing
Area : Production & Operations Management
Determinants of Inventory Trends in the Indian Automotive Industry: An Empirical Study
Project Team : Haritha Saranga, Arnab Mukherji and Janat Shah
Sponsor : SCM Centre
Project Status : Ongoing
Area : Production & Operations Management