In the mid 1990s India's Tata Motors Ltd. entered the passenger car business after having prospered for more than 40 years as a manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Based on archival data and on expert interviews the paper analyses the resource acquisition and internationalisation strategies and...

This paper argues for an integration of the Emerging Multinational Corporation (EMNC) with the Emerging Market Business Group (BG) literature to gain a better understanding of the capability creation and internationalization of firms from emerging markets. Both the EMNC and the BG literature...