Facilitation and Regulation of Educational Institutions: The Role of Accreditation

• Mathew J Manimala,
• Kishinchand Poornima Wasdani,
• Abhishek Vijaygopal

Affiliations

Mathew J Manimala

(Fellow-IIMA) has served as Director, XIME, Bangalore, and as Professor and Chairperson of OBHRM Area at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), where he also held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professorship and served as Chairperson of N. S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL). His earlier academic positions were at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) and Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). He is a recipient of the Heizer Award of the Academy of Management for outstanding research in new enterprise development, and has published several research papers and books in the areas of Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior. email: [email protected]

Kishinchand Poornima Wasdani

is an Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University (RRU), Canada. She was awarded an Accelerate Post-doctoral Fellowship from Mitacs (Federal Government of Canada) and was the first postdoctoral fellow appointed in the Faculty of Management, RRU. Her research interests include entrepreneurship and new venture formation, and inclusive organizations with a special interest in gender studies and waste management. She has published numerous books, journal articles and case studies. Wasdaniís most recent (edited) book is Transnational Entrepreneurship: Issues of SME Internationalization in the Indian Context. Her current research focuses on scientometrics, institutional voids and gender in relation to consumer markets. email: [email protected]

Abhishek Vijaygopal

is an Academic Associate in the Entrepreneurship Area at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and a Doctoral Research Scholar at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bengaluru, India. His areas of research interest include Entrepreneurship, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Organization Behavior, Public Policy and Solid Waste Management (SWM). He has worked in research roles in sponsored projects in the areas of corporate governance, education, entrepreneurship, labor and SWM. Abhishek has also co-edited the book, Transnational Entrepreneurship: Issues of SME Internationalization in the Indian Context, published in 2019 by Springer Nature. email: [email protected].