The present paper is a 'state of art' review of the organization behaviour research in India during the last decade. It identifies three dominant themes in the literature, viz. person themes, process themes, and action themes. Over 50 percent of the research is still on person themes with its moorings in psychology. Only 14 percent of the work centres around organizational processes and a third is descriptive writings of interventions primarily by outside consultants with very few planned research elements. Based on this, the article explores the implications in a historical perspective and attempts to place Indian work in the international context. It concludes that future work in OB in India has to be rooted in the organizational realities of the country and not based on imported concepts.
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