Structural and Functional Pre-Requisites of Management Admission Process: An Analysis of Aspirant Networks in India

Review Of Literature

Tracing back, it is indubitable that management education has been ingrained in our civilization since time immemorial. From the mythological literature like Bhagwad Geeta in which the teachings essentially envelopes lucid description of managerial techniques to let us rise above any sorts of conflicts, to the existing remains of Mohanjodaro and Harrapa civilizations, it is evident that our lifestyle had always sorted itself in terms of management and administration.

Coming to the history of the formal management education in the country, procrastinating the demand and need for grooming the Indians on management front, India was house to nine management education institute by 1958. The Indian Institute(s) of Management (IIMs) was established in the early 60 decades in Calcutta (Now, Kolkata) and Ahmedabad, respectively. With the then Department of Commerce in universities revisiting their curriculum to accommodate management education, it is interesting to note that by 1990, India had around eighty-two university-based management departments and the list also included some prominent names like the University of Delhi and Punjab, which established separate Faculty of Management (Sinha, 2004).