1st Edition
Indian Business in the Twentieth Century Development within an Era of Globalisation
1. The rise of Indian business in the global context in the twentieth century: A review and introduction
Swapnesh K. Masrani, Carlo J. Morelli and Amiya Kumar Bagchi
2. Reassessing FERA: Examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’
Michael Aldous and Tirthankar Roy
3. Regulating the post-independence textile trade: Anglo-Indian tariff negotiations from independence to the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Carlo J. Morelli
4. Internationalisation of the Indian telecommunication industry (1947–2004): A firm-level perspective
Ajit Nayak
5. Internment as a business challenge: Political risk management and German multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947)
Christina Lubinski, Valeria Giacomin and Klara Schnitzer
6. Ambiguous decolonisation: a postcolonial reading of the IHRM strategy of the Burmah Oil Company
Neveen Abdelrehim, Aparajith Ramnath, Andrew Smith and Andrew Popp
7. Getting together, living together, thinking together: Management development at Tata Sons 1940–1960
Swapnesh K. Masrani, Linda Perriton and Alan McKinlay
Biography
Swapnesh K. Masrani is Assistant Professor at the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. His research interest is in the area of Strategic Management and Management History, particularly the evolution of management practice in India during twentieth century, history of management education, and family business. He is also interested in using capability approach, path dependency, and institutional theory.
Carlo J. Morelli is Senior Lecturer in Business and Economic History at the University of Dundee. Carlo is interested in the generation of wealth in society and its re-distribution. His research examines industrial organisation and business/government relationships in the twentieth century. Current research in this area looks at our understanding of industrial decline, the jute and textile industries, and industrial transformation in Anglo-Indian economic relationships.
Amiya K. Bagchi is currently Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, India and Adjunct Professor at Monash University, Australia. He has taught and researched in the areas of economics and economic and social history since 1958. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by three universities in India and by Roskilde University, Denmark. His latest edited volumes are (jointly with Anthony D’Costa) Transformation and Development: the political economy of development in India and China, (2012) and (jointly with Amita Chatterjee) is Marxism With and Beyond Marx (Routledge, 2014). He was the lead consultant for Asia and the Pacific: A Story of Transformation and Resurgence, Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 1947-2014 (United Nations, 2014).
