Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: undoing boundaries / Devi Vijay and Rohit Varman -- Formal and informal technologies of alternative organizational spaces within the state : an analysis of violence, wrongdoing and policing / Srinath Jagannathan and Rajnish Rai -- Scripting alternative images : institutions, practices and scripts of the mritshilpis of kumortuli / Devi Vijay -- State of homeless shelters : ethnography of invisibility and self-exclusion / Ram Manohar Vikas -- Alternative spaces of employment generation in India : informal rules, structures, and conflicting organisational requirements / Joydeep Guha and Bhaskar Chakrabarti -- Shaheed hospital : alternative institution, ideology, and social movement / Apoorv Khare and Rohit Varman -- Acting for change : a circuits of power analysis of a denotified nomadic tribe and Budhan theater's struggle for change / Prateek Shah, George Kandathil, Anvika Kapoor -- Swaraj (an alternative) university / Nivedita Kothiyal -- Alternative organisations : spaces for contestation / Ankur Sarin and M.S. Sriram -- Index.

"Studies various emerging accounts of alternative organisations in India, forms of organising, organisational lives, and identities"--
This book studies accounts of alternative organisations in India and provides critical insights on if and why alternative organisations matter to management theory and practice, how management theory can be applied to the context of alternative organisations, and how, from an alternate organisational perspective, existing debates in management can be enriched. Some other questions examined in this book are: what are spaces of organising outside corporations? How do these alternative organisational forms challenge our assumptions about a globalised, monolithic capitalist order? How do we understand the organisational lives of those marginalised, silenced and oppressed? How can we imagine an alternative organisational reality? It includes cases from different parts of India that explore the functioning of a Special Investigation Team constituted by the Supreme Court of India, Mritshilpis (idol-makers), homeless shelters, panchayats, Shahid Hospital, Budhan Theater, Swaraj University, and organisations that promote social inclusivity.

Focuses on non-business organisational settings in India
Provides rich descriptions of eight organisational contexts in India
Goes beyond case descriptions and provides relevant theoretical frameworks to help readers develop rich insights. Provided by publisher.