Beschreibung:
This book uses a combination of business history and political economy to chart the development of Indian business organisation from independence in 1947 through to the twenty-first century.
1. The rise of Indian business in the global context in the twentieth century: A review and introduction 2. Reassessing FERA: Examining British firms' strategic responses to 'Indianisation' 3. Regulating the post-independence textile trade: Anglo-Indian tariff negotiations from independence to the Multi-Fibre Arrangement 4. Internationalisation of the Indian telecommunication industry (1947-2004): A firm-level perspective 5. Internment as a business challenge: Political risk management and German multinationals in Colonial India (1914-1947) 6. Ambiguous decolonisation: a postcolonial reading of the IHRM strategy of the Burmah Oil Company 7. Getting together, living together, thinking together: Management development at Tata Sons 1940-1960