Overview
- Includes wide-ranging contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners, each of whom has been associated with Professor Anup Sinha, either as friend, peer, or student
- Offers a valuable resource for scholars and researchers in economics and management as well as for corporate strategists and decision-makers
- Discusses the application of economic principles to real-world situations
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About this book
Professor Anup Sinha is a respected teacher and is a great mind with wide-ranging academic interests spanning from economics and sustainability to management. As well as in various other places in India and the US, he has taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Presidency College (now a University) Calcutta for almost three decades. To commemorate his contributions, this festschrift presents a collection of essays that are broadly subdivided into four sections: Economic Development; Vulnerabilities and Inclusive Growth; Sustainability and Corporate Governance; and Innovation and Management.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Economic Development
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Vulnerabilities and Inclusive Growth
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Sustainability and Corporate Governance
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Innovation and Management
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Runa Sarkar is Professor of Economics, and Dean (Academic), Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Prior to this, she taught at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. She, along with Anup Sinha is the co-author of two books, one titled Another Development: Participation, Empowerment and Well-being, and the other titled Economics of Sustainable Development. Sarkar has been one of the co-editors of the India Infrastructure Report, 2010 and 2009. Her latest book titled Environment, Business, Institutions was published in 2017. She has also co-edited another book, titled Essays on Sustainability and Management: Emerging Perspectives. Her areas of interest are corporate sustainability and the application of social informatics in agriculture. She is currently chairperson of Ctran Consulting, and is on the board of two other companies of the BASIX group.
Anindya Sen is Professor of Economics at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He was earlier Visiting Professor at School of Business and Management, AmericanUniversity of Armenia and at Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, USA. He was also Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. He has earlier held the positions of Dean (Programme Initiatives) and Dean (Academic) at IIM Calcutta and Dean at IGIDR Mumbai. He was the Director in-charge of IIM Ranchi from November 2014 to February 2017. He holds a Ph. D from University of Southern California, USA. His fields of interest are: Industrial Organization, Theory of the Firm, Regulation, Law and Economics and Strategic Management. He has authored and edited several volumes. He has been General Editor for a cluster of books on Economics and Development in the Oxford India Short Introduction series. Currently, he is editing two series for Routledge. He has published in both Indian and international journals and contributed chapters to a number of volumes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economics, Management and Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Anup Sinha
Editors: Partha Ray, Runa Sarkar, Anindya Sen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1894-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1893-1Published: 18 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4700-9Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1894-8Published: 08 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 283
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Growth, Development Economics, Sustainability Management, Banking