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In the 1950s and 1960s, several institutions were created in India to cater to the needs of management education and to assist in the process of national development. To date, there has been very little systematic comparative analysis of the experience of creating these institutions and examining their performance. The present paper reports the results of an attempt to assess the performance of six management education institutions in India which were established in the 1950s and 1960s and equally divided between post-graduate and post-experience education. Being an exploratory study, the emphasis has been on developing a methodology for assessment of performance and applying this to the area of management education. Basically, performance on both system survival and system effectiveness dimensions has been incorporated into the performance measurement attempt. System survival has been operationalized through a series of indicators on capability development; the system effectiveness dimension has been operationalized through a series of indicators on innovative thrust and penetration for these six institutions. An attempt has also been made to relate various process mechanisms of institution building to the different aspects of performance. Thus, the paper also explores the relationship of institution building processes with performance.
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The project on which the present paper is based is funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research through its grant F-1-265/76 RG. However, the responsibility for the facts stated, opinions expressed, and conclusions reached is entirely that of the author and not of the ICSSR nor that of the Administrative Staff, College of India where the author was based during the work on the project; nor that of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, where he is presently located.
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Ganesh, S.R. Performance of management education institutions: An Indian sampler. High Educ 9, 239–253 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138516
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