: The Indian economy registered significant growth after liberalization in the 1990s. The service sector and the manufacturing sector have been significant contributors to the growth of the economy. In this paper, an effort is made to understand whether the growth in the service sector had any...

While overseas acquisitions by emerging-economy firms are gaining increased attention from the business press, our understanding of whether and why this inorganic mode of international expansion creates value to acquirer firms is limited. We argue that international acquisitions facilitate...

The Indian Microfinance Industry witnessed one of the fastest growths in the recent times. However, the sticking feature of the growth is that the Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are concentrated in only some regions of the country. There is a huge geographical skew in the distribution of the...

In the last few decades researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds have addressed the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, leading to the emer gence of multiple and seemingly unrelated theories. Apparently, no unify ing framework exists in the literature that can bring these diverse theories...

While the network theory and the resource-based view of the firm has emerged as a dominant paradigm of management research, entrepreneurship researchers continue to show limited interest in studying resource strategies and the role of network in building dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurial...

This paper examines the strategic response of the Indian pharmaceutical industry to the dual institutional changes arising from economic liberalization of the Indian economy and the WTO mandated intellectual property regime. An analysis of the relative position and growth of Indian firms...

This paper is an attempt to throw light on the internationalization paths of emerging economy firms through a strategic group analysis of internationalizing firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. Strategic group analysis of a proprietary data set of strategic variables from forty firms...