Published Online:March 2026
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Case Folio
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJCF020326
DOI:10.71329/CaseFolio/2026.26.1.20-36
Author Name:Samarpita Roy, A Dinesh and Arijit Santikary
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Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:20-36
Business schools today pay more attention to shareholder value, operational efficiency, and quantitative control systems than to the 3Ss (Social, Serviceful, and Sustainable). This paper discusses the need to inculcate and integrate core transformations so that the business school of the future looks less like a campus and more like a global learning network. In this context, indegenous knowledge systems (IKS) cannot be dismissed as just part of the past, with little use for the present. They hold within them answers for the sustainability, biodiversity, wellness, and ethical entrepreneurship challenges. However, the very survival of these indigenous knowledge systems is at great risk with artificial intelligence (AI) transforming the global knowledge economy. This paper argues that IKS can be a powerful method to achieve sustainability by preserving and promoting thoughts of natural conservation and ethical modalities of business operations while focussing on profitability too. It suggests that adoption of the Case Pedagogy method would ensure acceptance and transferability, while promoting the relevance of IKS among the management students as well as business managers. Further, the paper also argues that such preservation and promotion of IKS is inevitable in promoting the cause of all business organizations attaining sustainability.
The world is going through a disruptive phase and there is tremendous uncertainty about the future. As the challenges are huge, the required solutions must be not only smart and quick but also sustainable so that this generation and future generations can be ensured of a safe, healthy, and secure living space. But do we require technological innovations to ensure this? Maybe.