Quantity should
only follow values and vision. We realise that research
and knowledge management are converging. Research
cannot be a separate activity but has to be incorporated
into our thinking and action in the emergent, complex
and interdependent world.
Interdependencies have to start at home. There
have been several initiatives in TAPMI to create
this. Joint papers, internal seminars, and more
than anything else, creating a culture of mutual
respect and recognition is what we are building
up in TAPMI.
Besides research and publication activities in
functional areas, we have been concerned with research
ideas and actions involving, among others, institution
building, networking, social capital, trust, communicative
action, inequity in knowledge activity and intellectual
property rights in a globally networked environment.
There are also others amongst us who are deeply
involved in furthering quantitative and technical
knowledge through mathematical modelling, work in
simulation, neural networks, fuzzy logic, heuristics,
bounded rationality, financial investments, portfolio
analysis, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)
and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
We are also making contributions to international
and domestic professional bodies. There was active
participation by eight TAPMI faculty members in
the annual Conference of the Association of Indian
Management Scholars (AIMS) at IIM, Kolkata in December
2004. One of our faculty members has been invited
to be the guest-editor for a special issue of the
International Journal of Management and Decision
Making.
Two faculty members were chosen to attend a three-week
program on Heuristics conducted by Pasteur Institute,
Germany which was held at IIM, Bangalore. We are
participating in the Doctoral Summer School being
held at XIMB, Bhubaneshwar in May 2005.
Among the publications, we have several of them
in reputed international journals. There have been
a few citations of our faculty publications by international
scholars writing in the most prestigious journals
in their respective fields.
In the new Knowledge Society, there is no scope
for empty scholasticism. We have to be deeply sensitive
to what happens to actual practitioners in real-life
situations. One way to show this sensitivity is
by involving our PGP students in research. We released
a Compendium of Research Papers in March 2005 which
are jointly authored by students and Faculty at
TAPMI. Efforts are on to make PGP curricula more
student-driven wherein the role of informed action
through self-directed knowledge-seeking and inquiry
would dominate.
The prospects for the future are as follows
Publication in Journals: Many
of the current outputs in terms of working papers
and seminar papers would translate in to greater
number of journal articles in the next few weeks.
Working Paper Series: In the first
three months of 2005, we produced 13 working papers.
We expect to produce more than fifty papers during
2005-06. To enhance quality and transparency, we
decided to put all these papers on the net.
Faculty-Student Partnership in Research:
During April 2005, the faculty members came up with
a compendium of nine research papers that were co-authored
with our PGP students. This is also available in
the net. There will be another such publication
this year too.
Topic-Centred Research: We are
currently working on the topic “Women Managers”
to come out with a compendium on the topic. This
will carry research articles by academics and women
managers.
Networking: We expect to network
even more vigorously with professional research
institutions and PhD / fellowship granting institutions
this year.
Seminars: There is an active faculty
seminar series at TAPMI.
Ph.D Programme: We started a doctoral
programme. We have now five candidates enrolled
for the PhD. We are realigning our resources and
networking opportunities that will allow us to admit
fresh candidates in the near future.
