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This book discusses the issues and challenges of organizing and managing in the context of a globalized world. It provides insights and perspectives on the realities of organization in a world where governance structures, organizational processes, management practices, and employment relations are in a vortex of transformation. It analyzes the political, economic, sociological, cultural, institutional, and legal factors that shape these realities.
Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance and Indian Business Elites
Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance and Indian Business Elites
Introduction
Entrepreneurship and corporate governance are key issues in the debate surrounding competitiveness, sustainability and accountability. Despite the rhetoric of borderless transnational corporations driven by trends in globalization, improved communications, interconnected financial markets and the rise of outsourcing and off-shoring (Reich 1991, Ohmae 2005), nation states and national identities continue to play an influential role in defining and structuring managerial mentalities and dispositions (Dickens and Thrift 1992, Yeung 1998, Harzing and Sorge 2003, Jones 2006). As proponents of the ‘divergent capitalism’ thesis point out (Whitley 1999, Quack et al. 2000, Hall and Soskice 2001), firms and people are historically embedded in their national culture. While over the past ...
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