Researches in Management in Asia Series

Ten volumes have been publishesed by the faculty of the Department in this series.

Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Development Program

The Entrepreneurship Program was started at IIT Delhi in 1987. Beginning as Entrepreneurship Development Cell, it evolved into an Entrepreneurship Development Program. The Program has had recognition as one of the premier sources of research, teaching, training and consultancy in the area of entrepreneurship in India. Several research projects have been completed by the Faculty. It has played a leading role in setting up of Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Parks and nucleating Entrepreneurship Development Cells in various institutions. The Department offers two PG and three UG courses in the area of entrepreneurship which are very popular among all students.

SIDBI Program on Entrepreneurship Management

The programme actively covers Entrepreneurship Management Education and Research. As part of this, SIDBI sponsored three-phase programs are designed, developed and implemented for developing skills and competencies for entrepreneurial ventures. It also runs entrepreneurship awareness programs and Science and Technology Upgradation programs.

Intellectual Property Rights Cell

Department of Management Studies had taken early initiative in 1992/1993 towards strengthing IPR education among all sections of IIT(D) community. Since then several IPR education programs and conferences have been conducted by the Department, including the ‘International Conference on Intellectual Property Education and Training’ which was jointly sponsored by WIPO and MHRD in July 2001. IIT Delhi is the first technical institution in the country to have started a full-semester course on IPRs.

Management Development Programs

The contribution of the faculty has been particularly sought in areas of Innovation, Information Systems, organization/Human Resource Management, Longitudinal Thinking, Operations Management, Entrepreneurship, IPR, International Finance, International Business Competitiveness, Flexibility, Developmental Banking, Sales & Marketing Management. The Department has a high profile in the world of learning-training activities and activities related to development of organizations and the government. Major industries of the public sector such as ONGC, BHEL, SAIL, BEL, HAL, Indian Oil, CMC, EIL, Indian Airlines, National Fertilizers, RITES, IRCON, MUL, HZL, NALCO, BPCL, NFL, STC to name a few, have drawn upon the expertise of the Department. Private organizations such as Shriram Group, JK organization, Birla Group of Companies, Modi Group of companies, UB Group, MRF, BPL and national Industry associations such as ASSOCHAM, CII, FICCI and PHDCCI have found it profitable to relate to the Faculty at the Department.

E-learning Programs

Three E-Learning courses under the umbrella of ‘Online Executive Development Programme’ (OEDP) have been established collaboratively by both Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), Department of Management Studies and Macmillan India Limited (MIL) to provide online courses to working executives on the Internet. The E-Learning courses offered under OEDP are easily accessible and offer the flexibility of time and ease of learning that have been a long-felt need of working executives. The 3 courses under this category are Supply Chain Management, Finance for Non-Finance and International Finance.

Journal of Advances in Management Research (JAMR)

Launched in year 2003 by the Hon’ble President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the ‘Journal of Advances in Management Research’, published by the Department, fulfills much desired vacuum of a refereed periodical in India that sets standard for research quality. This Journal provides a platform for the dissemination of research in current and emerging areas of management. It is a refereed journal and is known for the quality of research papers that appear in it.

Center for Excellence in E-governance

A ‘Center for Excellence in E-governance’ has been established under a MoU signed between IITD and Sun Microsystems (Bangalore) dedicated to promote research in the area of e-governance. The following components are being executed :

• To create a state of the art facility for research and training on e-governance, its technologies and public policy related issues. This would also include maintenance of the computing infrastructure, review and refresh the facility after every 3 years or as may be necessary and fund defined projects (in terms of attending scholastic meets, field work, contingency, stipend etc.) to be undertaken jointly by Sun and IITD faculty.
• Visiting faculty from Sun Microsystem work in the department .
• Select post graduate students to get support in the area of e-Governance in the form of stipend/ fellowship for M.Tech., M.S. (R), MBA and /or Ph.D.