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  • Nidhi Srinivas

    Professor of Management

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    Nidhi Srinivas

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    Nidhi Srinivas is Associate Professor of Management at Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment. His research centers on social innovation and postcolonial studies, mobilizing critical theory to study a variety of topics, including management history, international development, mutual aid, ecological politics and civic design. He publishes widely and has received several fellowships, including from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Erasmus Mundus, the India China Institute, and the BRICS policy center. He has also served as visiting professor at different institutions, including the ITC-ILO, Turin; Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo; Sao Paulo School of Business Administration; and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.   Srinivas teaches courses in Management, Critical Management Studies and Social Innovation. His classes enhance students’ ability to critique and integrate theories, with a particular focus on design, inclusion and social justice.  

    His book "Against NGOs: A Critical Perspective on Civil Society, Management and Development" is available from Cambridge University Press.


    Recent Publications

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2020), Moving past binaries in management history: the scope for a postcolonial project and epistemic critique. Journal of Management History.

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2020), Evil. In V. Tassinari & E. Staszowski (Eds.) Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon. London: Bloomsbury.

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2020), An anarchist prehistory of management. In M. Parker (Ed.) Management and Anarchism. London: Routledge.

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2017), Environmental Grassroots Partnerships and Potential for Social Innovation. In Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans. In Shikui Dong, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay & Sanjay Chaturvedi (Eds.) Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans: Struggles and Innovations in China and India: 145-164. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

    Srinivas, Nidhi & Staszowski, Eduardo (2017) Trickery in civic design: Subversion, cooptation and politics. In T. Fisher and L. Gamman (Eds).  Tricky things: The dark side of design, London: Bloomsbury Academic.

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2016), Deschooling the manager through the humanities: Mintzberg’s amateurish conscience. In C. Steyaert, T. Beyes, & M. Parker (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education: 65-76. New York: Routledge.

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2016),Transnational governance and the trilhos urbanos: Civil society resistance to the Rio Mega Events. Revista de Administração de Empresas.

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2015), A ‘fixação’ do poder: O que os desastres podem nos dizer sobre gestão. Revista Brasileira De Estudos Organizacionais. 2(1).

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2013), Could a subaltern manage? Professional habitus and practice in a colonial workplace. Organization Studies. 34(11) 1655–1674

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2012), The possibility of the past: Two routes to a past and what they tell us about professional power. Management & Organizational History, 7-3: 237–249.

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2012), Epistemic and performative quests for authentic management in India. Organization, 19-2: 145-158. (Selected for Organization Editors' Picks: Postcolonialism and Voices from the South)

    Jack, Gavin, Westwood, Robert, Srinivas, Nidhi and Sardar, Ziauddin (2011), Deepening, broadening and re-asserting a postcolonial interrogative space in organization studies. Organization, 18-3: 275-302. (Editorial and editors, special issue: Interrogating Organization through the Postcolonial) 

    Mintzberg, Henry and Srinivas, Nidhi (2010), Juxtaposing doers and helpers in development. Community Development Journal, 45-1: 39-57.

    Srinivas, Nidhi (2009), Against NGOs?: A Critical Perspective on Nongovernmental Action. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 38-4: 614.


    Research Interests

    Social Innovation and Design; Postcolonial studies and inclusion; Global civil society and NGOs; Critical theory


    Current Courses

    Equivalency (PHD)
    NEQV 7001, Fall 2024

    Management & Social Justice
    NMGM 5104, Fall 2024

    Systems Approach to Mgt & Orgs
    NMGM 5202, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Equivalency (PHD)
    NEQV 7001, Spring 2025

    Management & Social Justice
    NMGM 5104, Spring 2025

    Pol Econ & Public Policy II
    NPUP 7000, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Equivalency (PHD)
    NEQV 7001, Spring 2024

    Pol Econ & Public Policy II
    NPUP 7000, Spring 2024

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