Title: Industry-institute integration: exploring symbiotic engagements for management education

Authors: Apoorva Bharadwaj, B.S. Sahay

Addresses: Institute of Management Technology, Raj Nagar, Ghaziabad 201 001, Uttar Pradesh, India. ' Management Development Institute, Mehrauli Road, Gurgaon 122 001, Haryana, India

Abstract: In this article, an attempt has been made to present a symbiotic model of functioning for industry-academia partnerships, identifying the factors that render the partnership programmes dysfunctional and addressing them to explore how the collaboration can become a mutually rewarding experience for the partnering entities in the context of management education. This partnership has not been treated in the conventional |producer-consumer| framework, but as an alliance bringing together two different organisations with diverse functioning modalities together to play complementary roles in a clearly defined linkage by integrating their processes as tools of continuous assessment and progress for tuning in with the new challenges of a dynamic competitive society.

Keywords: symbiotic models; management education; communication; human resources; synergy; evaluation; partnerships; induction; critical action learning; industry-institute integration; industry-academia collaboration; industrial cooperation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2010.029881

International Journal of Management in Education, 2010 Vol.4 No.1, pp.46 - 60

Published online: 02 Dec 2009 *

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