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...

Through a case study on the Tata Iron and Steel Company, this article aims to clarify how a large-scale Indian industrial enterprise developed its business strategy in order to expand suitable sales networks in the 1920s, when the consumption pattern of steel changed drastically. In...

Under the joint stock company system, ultimate control over management is derived from the effective rate of shareholding. In colonial India, the joint stock company system was widely used from the mid-nineteenth century; however, control was considered to come not from the effective rate of...