Overview
- Takes a new approach to the business and economic history of colonial India
- Bridges the gap between the business history and economic history of colonial India
- Clarifies the institutional foundations of the economic development of colonial India
Part of the book series: Studies in Economic History (SEH)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This monograph aims to analyze the economic and business history of colonial India from a corporate perspective by clarifying the historical role of institutional developments based on archival evidence of a representative enterprise. The perspective is distinctively unique in that it highlights the salience of corporate-level institutional responses to explain the causes of colonial India’s industrial growth, in addition to two renowned perspectives focusing on government economic policy or factor endowment.
One of the driving forces of India’s high growth rate since the 1980s is the expansion of modern business corporations whose origins date back to the colonial era in the mid-nineteenth century. This monograph explores the historical foundation of the growth of such corporations in colonial India, guided by a substantial collection of documents of Tata Iron and Steel Company, whose rich records have not received the due attention they have long deserved. As clarified by numerous economic and business historians of leading industrialized countries since the works of Douglass North and Alfred Chandler, this study as well proposes that the development of modern business corporations in colonial India was broadly supported by the reciprocal evolution of economic institutions and corporate organizations. Adding a new perspective to the business and economic history of colonial India, the analysis also provides an important case study of the development of corporate business in the non-Western world to the study of global business history.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The House of Tata Meets the Second Industrial Revolution
Book Subtitle: An Institutional Analysis of Tata Iron and Steel Co. in Colonial India
Authors: Chikayoshi Nomura
Series Title: Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8678-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8677-9Published: 23 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4212-7Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8678-6Published: 12 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2364-1797
Series E-ISSN: 2364-1800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Family Business, History of South Asia