This book presents thoughtful insights into the management of public sector corporations in a state of North East India - the state of Assam. It is felt that many a public enterprise organization in the several states of India are performing sub-optimally. This could be due mainly with the hitherto prevalent belief that public sector enterprises (PSEs) are meant to carry out their business with lesser emphasis on profitability - more as social service kind of organizations. Though this perception has started changing, yet the typical traits of the private enterprise - mainly profitability and growth - are still regarded as secondary across several PSEs.
R.K. Mishra, ONGC Subir Raha Chair Professor on Corporate Governance, Senior Professor and Director, Institute of Public Enteprises (IPE), Hyderabad, did his PhD from University of Rajasthan. A Visiting Fellow at London Business School (UK), he also studied for International Teachers programme at SDA Bocconi, Milan. Dr Mishra has taught at the University of Bradford and was a Visiting Professor at Maison Des Sciences De L’ Hommes, Paris and Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of the UN Task Force on International Standards of Excellence in Public Administration and Education. He is a special invite on OECD Working Group on Privatization and Corporate Governance of SOEs and Asian Network of Corporate Governance. He is Non-Executive Director on some of the public and private enterprise boards in India. He has considerable experience of teaching and guiding research for doctoral degree in management, economics, public administration and commerce. Dr. S.K. Mathur, Fellow, IIM - Bangalore, is Professor and Advisor for the Executive PGDM Programme at Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) at Hyderabad. He has had a rich industry/ academic experience of 35 years. He was Executive Director with India’s and world’s largest public transport undertaking namely AP State Road Transport Corporation and steered many mission critical projects, including in the IT and MIS domain. He was on the World Advisory Council of a large software company of U.S, Ryan McFarland Corporation. He represented IPE as a member of a Committee for evaluation of four major steel plants for the Prime Minister’s Trophy for the Best Steel Plant in India in 2010-11. He has carried out consulting assignments for many a corporate enterprise in the states of Assam, Karnataka, Gujarat, etc., across key sectors such as transport, power, steel and metals, industry, tourism, etc.
Dr. Mathur has had academic discussions at a few renowned global B-Schools in U.S.A such as Harvard Business School, MIT, NYU Stern, as well as at Nanyang Business School, Singapore on issues related to curriculum for MBA/PGDM Programmes. His teaching and consultancy span across domains such as International Business, Innovation Management, Strategic Management, MIS and Global Mark Marketing.
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