The United States is India's largest trade and investment partner and is engaged with India at various levels of economic cooperation. This paper studies the direct and indirect impact of US FDI inflows in India and identifies the challenges faced by US investors. The paper is based on secondary...

This paper has made an attempt to identify the role of lead firms in mapping the activities related to upgrading. Upgrading refers to the process through which firms may move up the value chain. The literature identifies different types of upgrading such as product, process, functional and...

The literature on backward and forward linkages in global value chains (GVCs) explores the interconnectedness of production processes across different stages and locations within the global economy. The significance of imports in value chains, however, is relatively unexplored. Recognizing...

India presents an unique example of manufacturing capability in most sectors, but low integration into GVCs. This paper examines the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs, especially in the manufacturing sector. It argues that one of the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs is...

This paper focuses on the automobile industry and examines the nature of global value chains in it with reference to the case of India. The aim is to explore the relation between lead firms, particularly MNCs, and the extent to they have contributed to the development of the Indian automobile...

International tätigen Unternehmungen stehen grundsätzlich zwei Optionen zurBesetzung vakanter Schlüsselpositionen in ausländischen Tochtergesellschaften zurVerfügung, und zwar die Rekrutierung von lokalen Fach- und Führungskräften oder dieEntsendung von Stammhausdelegierten. Die...

Seit den siebziger Jahren wurden zahlreiche theoretische Ansätze entwickelt, welche dieBetätigung von Unternehmungen auf ausländischen Märkten zu erklären versuchen (füreinen Überblick vgl. Welge/Holtbrügge 2003, 51 ff.). Einer der prominentesten und amhäufigsten zitierten Ansätze ist...

The internationalization of business within the last fifty years has led to a growing importanceof international human resource management (IHRM) (see, for example, Dowling et al. 1994,Desatnick and Bennet 1977, Evans et al. 2002 or Harzing/van Ruysseveldt 1995). Especiallythe role of...