ABSTRACT

A distinctive aspect of India’s managerial elite is that it is dominated by people with an educational background in engineering. This paper unravels the history of how this major phenomenon arose, by tracking the evolution of management education in mid-twentieth century India. It emphasizes the significance of the network developed between the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and points to important contextual factors including the industrial recession of 1968–70 and admission test criteria that contributed heavily to the rise of the ‘technological manager’. Some of these factors continued to be important in the early twenty-first century, having implications on the diversity of educational backgrounds and diversity by gender among India’s managerial elite.

摘要

印度管理精英的一个独特方面是，它受具有工程学教育背景的人们所控制。本文通过追踪20世纪中叶印度的管理教育的演变，揭示了这一主要现象如何产生的历史。它强调了印度技术学院（IIT）和印度管理学院（IIM）之间建立的网络的重要性，并指出了重要的背景因素，包括1968-70年的工业衰退和入学考试标准，这些因素极大地促进了印度的崛起。 “技术经理”。其中一些因素在二十一世纪初仍然很重要，对印度管理精英中教育背景的差异和性别的差异产生了影响。