Colonial hangover? A case of multiple cross-cultural influences on Indian railways

Title: Colonial hangover? A case of multiple cross-cultural influences on Indian railways
Creator: Pereira, Vijay; Malik, Ashish
Relation: Social Identities Vol. 24, Issue 3, p. 293-311
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2017.1329654
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: Employing a reflexive-ethnographic design involving past experiences and analysing qualitative data contained in 73 interviews with senior managers from the Indian Railways (IR), this study argues for the remnants of colonial influence on the management, governance aspects and culture in IR. Findings from the study further ratify and confirm aspects of our four scenarios and indicate that the interaction between colonial culture with both national and organisational culture collides to create a complex and conflicting culture in this extremely large and diverse organisation. Such organisational culture, despite the resilient presence of Indianness, paradoxically retains strong elements of the colonial influences as this is seen at times a legitimate and dominant way of governing the world's largest commercial employer - The IR.
Subject: Indian railways; colonialism; reflexivity; ethnographic; Indianness; cross-culture
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409916
Identifier: uon:36088
Identifier: ISSN:1350-4630
Language: eng
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