PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, April 29: XLRI Jamshedpur today announced that Santanu Sarkar (Professor of Human Resource Management Area) is one of 22 business school faculty who is honoured by AACSB International (AACSB) – the world’s largest business education alliance – as the 2024 Class of Influential Leaders.
All faculty from this year’s class of influential leaders are from one of AACSB’s more than 1,000 accredited business schools worldwide.
Santanu Sarkar is currently a professor in the Human Resource Management Area at XLRI Jamshedpur.
He has published in numerous HR-related journals and is considered an authority in the field.
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What were included in his research?
Specifically, his work on cross-cultural issues in labour relations among emerging economy sectors, along with his work on the independent labour movement, trade and labour policies, and unions in the global south, has become part of course readings for students and scholars in the West as well as policy tools for trade unions in India and abroad.
“Santanu Sarkar’s work demonstrates the potential of business school research to address some of today’s most critical challenges,” said Lily Bi, AACSB President and CEO.
Sarkar’s research has focused primarily on conditions of labour in the global south. He has studied employees in call centres in India, worker cooperatives in mining, the judicial interpretation of employment protection laws, trade policies and labour standards, and the local articulation of global campaigns in developing countries.
Sarkar has also been studying a broad array of issues related to collectivization, labour disputes, work precarity, reforms, and employment conditions of vulnerable sections of the working class.
Additionally, his research on unions in the global south has been referred to by scholars in the field of labour transnationalism and by global union federations in engaging multinational corporations across their global supply chain.
Sarkar’s views on the success of the independent labour movement in Southeast and South Asia have been endorsed by policy research groups involved in changing the political landscape of the trade union movement.
