No other period in the entire history of India ever witnessed such momentous developments, affecting so profoundly the life of its people as the half century that followed the end of British colonialism. Business was one realm that experienced a great deal of upheavals. This book provides a...

Empirical studiès on the entrepreneurial performance of Indian business houses are few and far between. Arguing that the earlier studies were unduly influenced by some a priori deductive formulations, the paper traces the stages through which an empirical bias has set in during recent decades....