{"title":"Integrating IKS stories to enrich Indian perspective in management education","authors":"Subbarao V. Jayanti, Sampath Kumar L","doi":"10.1016/j.iimb.2026.100706","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It has been widely recognised that India should have its own management education rooted in its history, culture, and ethos. We suggest using stories from the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) in management programmes. In this paper, we demonstrate how to analyse IKS stories from management perspectives. We also present empirical findings from a course and a workshop on IKS stories. The students’ response to the idea of incorporating IKS stories in management curriculum is positive and encouraging. We hope that our paper will help teachers to integrate IKS stories with Contemporary Knowledge Systems (CKS) and design relevant courses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46337,"journal":{"name":"IIMB Management Review","volume":"38 3","pages":"Article 100706"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IIMB Management Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389626000650","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/8/30 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
It has been widely recognised that India should have its own management education rooted in its history, culture, and ethos. We suggest using stories from the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) in management programmes. In this paper, we demonstrate how to analyse IKS stories from management perspectives. We also present empirical findings from a course and a workshop on IKS stories. The students’ response to the idea of incorporating IKS stories in management curriculum is positive and encouraging. We hope that our paper will help teachers to integrate IKS stories with Contemporary Knowledge Systems (CKS) and design relevant courses.
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IIMB Management Review (IMR) is a quarterly journal brought out by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Addressed to management practitioners, researchers and academics, IMR aims to engage rigorously with practices, concepts and ideas in the field of management, with an emphasis on providing managerial insights, in a reader friendly format. To this end IMR invites manuscripts that provide novel managerial insights in any of the core business functions. The manuscript should be rigorous, that is, the findings should be supported by either empirical data or a well-justified theoretical model, and well written. While these two requirements are necessary for acceptance, they do not guarantee acceptance. The sole criterion for publication is contribution to the extant management literature.Although all manuscripts are welcome, our special emphasis is on papers that focus on emerging economies throughout the world. Such papers may either improve our understanding of markets in such economies through novel analyses or build models by taking into account the special characteristics of such economies to provide guidance to managers.