India's Technology-Led Development: Managing Transitions to a Digital Future

The recent disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have shaken the fundamental foundations of global business to their core, creating unprecedented challenges for management scholars and practitioners. In addition, over the past few decades, the general adoption of communication technologies and the evolving trends towards digitalization and Industry 4.0 have revolutionized the way organizations are managed and led. Business model innovation and the developing importance of sustainability have also emerged as strategic platforms for all types of organizations. Technology-led managerial transformation has now become critical for 21st century business. This book investigates four approaches in understanding the perspectives for integrating technology with holistic development: a Civilizational Approach, which integrates cultural, historical as well as geographical nuances in a way totally different from the Western positivistic models; a Stakeholder Approach, which involves moving away from a mere participant or observer role and embracing the 'Stakeholder' role; a Knowledge Partnership Approach, which lays the foundations of India's technology-led development through education, training, research and talent management; and a Strategic Development Approach, which unlocks the economic growth and wealth creation potential by keying marketing and branding at the ecosystem level.

Dr Vipin Gupta is a Professor, Author, Truth Seeker, and Motivator at the Jack H Brown College of Business and Public Administration, California State University San Bernardino, USA. He has a PhD in managerial science and applied economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a gold medallist from the Post-graduate Program of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. Professor Gupta has authored more than 250 journal articles and book chapters and published twenty books, including the co-edited Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies. Besides delivering lectures and keynotes, he has presented at international academic conferences in more than sixty nations. He has been on the governing board and organizing committee of several international conferences. As a 2015–16 American Council of Education fellow, he visited 62 universities, colleges, and higher education institutions in nine European nations, the USA, and India. His latest project comprises twelve authored books under the series "Vastly Integrated Processes Inside Mother Nature" in 2021 and 2022 on the metaphysics of everything, everybody, and everyone (Vipingupta.net).

Dr Samir Ranjan Chatterjee is an Emeritus Professor renowned for his role as university academic, research scholar and International trainer and consultant for five decades. Besides his home base at Curtin University in Australia, he has lived and worked for extended periods in India, China, the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), France, former Yugoslavia, Japan, Singapore, Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Hong Kong. During 1994–95, he lived in Mongolia for a year as the United Nations Adviser in the development of management education, and worked there until 1999 as Director of large capacity building programs funded by the United Nations Development Program. Between 1999–2003, he was an international expert reviewer with the Asian Development Bank on a US$ 250 million higher education sector reform project in Indonesia. From 2013–2015, he was the Project Adviser of a 'Pro-Poor Capacity Building' Program for Senior Public Sector Executives in Mongolia funded by the Australian Government. Prof Chatterjee has also been the Director of a number of Australia Government funded Senior Ministry Officials for the Ministry Finance and Ministry of Foreign affairs in China, Senior Ministry officials of India, Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. He has been a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Australian Society of CPAs. He has authored and co-authored eleven books including a book on Indian Management published by Sage.

Dr Alka Maurya is Professor of International Business at Amity International Business School, Amity University, India. She is a Computer Science Graduate and has done her Masters in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India and PhD in International Business from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India. She has over 27 years of experience in teaching, research and consulting. Before coming into academia she worked with various export promotion bodies in India and worked on preparing strategies for promoting export from India. She has presented her research work in various national and international forums on various topics related to international business. She has published 10 books and several research papers/case studies in her area of specialization. She is also invited as a speaker/resource person for various international conferences and seminars on international business. Teaching is her passion, and she is shaping young minds to take up the challenges in this dynamic and competitive environment.