The House of Tata Meets the Second Industrial Revolution An Institutional Analysis of Tata Iron and Steel Co. in Colonial India /

This monograph aims to analyze the economic and business history of colonial India from a corporate perspective by clarifying the historical role of institutional developments based on archival evidence of a representative enterprise. The perspective is distinctively unique in that it highlights the...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Nomura, Chikayoshi (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2018.
Σειρά:Studies in Economic History,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The development of the modern business corporation in 19th century India: Building the foundations for the emergence of TISCO in the 20th century
  • 3 TISCO during the decade of the 1900s: The Formation period
  • 4 Initial failure to produce competitive steel, capitalization problems and the institution of an internal financing system
  • 5 Labour unrest and the introduction of a direct labour management system
  • 6 The financial crisis of the 1920s, the introduction of tariff protection and "imperial commitment"
  • 7 Continuing labour unrest, efficiency enhancing schemes and improvements in labour productivity during the late 1920s
  • 8 The 1930s: Failure in export-oriented development and conservative attitudes towards further expansion
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Index
  • Bibliography.