Management Research in future (India's Context)

Management Research in future

Management Research is getting newer dimension with the popularity of MBAs across the globe. The progress of the study of Management is drastic compared to the other disciplines, especially in India. With the growing number of enthusiasts in this field of the Research in Management is giving newer perspective to the discipline. Various sub domains under management research is added and the recent one being an Information System / Technology. As every domain gives various insights and poses a challenge for the researcher to select from the wide array of the subject, this further leads to exploring new research being conducted or giving a new dimension to the existing research.

Based on the way the industries are growing and changes in the lifestyle, the same way every research need to align with the current and future needs. The new buzzwords like cloud computing, cash on delivery, globalization, social media, a way of playing games, virtual world, dynamics in e-governance & many more… are opening a new horizon in the research field.

The future of management research apart from getting deeper into the current problems shall see a drift in exploring kind of unimaginable/not real (the way the Hollywood Movies are made) or it can go back to the square one of getting more insights from the great epics from history.

Few of the challenges, the future of management research shall face are as below:

• ·        See greater challenges in getting the funds for the kind of extensive research that need to be conducted compared to the current or past research(s).
• ·         The dynamics in the redundancy of research should be eliminated and an ecosystem should support to make sure that every effort of Research should lead to the real contribution of knowledge.

The agenda for core research in management should be towards making the outcome of the research being implemented at the real-time which can be in the business sense or at the academic level and primarily it should be able to address the current / future needs & challenges.

Ref. My Research Class assignment.