How Do Multinationals View India as a Global Supply Chain Partner and Market? Benefits, Concerns, and Obstacles

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© 2024, Farok J. Contractor, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Business School India, with its expanding economy, has finally arrived on the world stage as a potentially very important market and supply chain partner for multinational companies. What factors within the country attract multinationals to engage in foreign direct investment (FDI) in India? What factors within India … Continue reading How Do Multinationals View India as a Global Supply Chain Partner and Market? Benefits, Concerns, and Obstacles

BOOK REVIEW – THE STRUGGLE AND THE PROMISE: RESTORING INDIA’S POTENTIAL by Naushad Forbes

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© 2022, Farok J. Contractor, Distinguished Professor, Management & Global Business, Rutgers Business School Ordinarily, I do not do book reviews. But The Struggle and the Promise: Restoring India’s Potential by Naushad Forbes (2022, HarperCollins) struck a note with me because it covers most of the important issues facing the future of developing countries, and … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW – THE STRUGGLE AND THE PROMISE: RESTORING INDIA’S POTENTIAL by Naushad Forbes

What Is Socialism? Why I Changed the Subtitle of My Previous Post

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© 2020, Farok J. Contractor, Rutgers Business School In commenting about the Indian economy and its relation to International Business in my previous post, I had initially used the term “socialist somnolence” in the subtitle to describe the Indian business environment as it existed decades ago. Some elements of that past linger, as I described, … Continue reading What Is Socialism? Why I Changed the Subtitle of My Previous Post