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  1. Evolution of the Indian economy

  • Dr. Sumon Bhaumik
• 57 min
  2. Indian politics

  • Dr. Lawrence Sáez
• 43 min
  3. Indian culture: an introduction

  • Prof. Jai B. P. Sinha
• 32 min
  4. IT outsourcing in India

  • Prof. Rafiq Dossani
• 35 min
  5. Negotiating in India

  • Dr. Rajesh Kumar
• 36 min
  6. Understanding India's business climate: a national business system perspective

  • Prof. U. Srinivasa Rangan
• 42 min
  7. The global Indian firm

  • Prof. Sam Hariharan
  • Prof. U. Srinivasa Rangan

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1. Introduction
2. Scope of presentation
3. Indian culture in cultural clusters
4. Sources of complexity of Indian culture
5. Long history
6. Pluralistic worldview
7. Continuity of traditions
8. Factors supporting complexity
9. The ancient palimpsest
10. Hindu religion
11. Metonymic thinking
12. The oral tradition
13. The Indian mindset
14. Layers of cultural experiences
15. A synthesizing mind
16. Indians are collectivists and individualists
17. Indians are hierarchically and quality oriented
18. Indians are dependence prone and entrepreneurial
19. Indians are masculine and feminine
20. Indians are analytical, holistic and emotional
21. Indians believe in destiny and karma
22. Coexistence of harmony and violence
23. Idealizing perfection, but living with imperfection
24. Pragmatism, realism and idealism
25. Spiritualism and materialism coexist
26. Settling the paradoxes
27. Context sensitivity
28. Places or settings
29. Persons and relationships
30. Changes overtime
31. Disabling contexts
32. Enabling contexts
33. Indians in debilitating contexts
34. Major types of enabling organizations
35. Indians in enabling contexts (1)
36. Indians in enabling contexts (2)
37. Indians in grey (enabling and disabling) situations
38. Indians' overall strategy
39. Dealing with the Indian mindset
40. Strategy for interfacing with Indians
41. Concluding remarks
42. References (1)
43. References (2)

Topics Covered

• Indian culture
• Long history
• Pluralistic worldview
• Continuity of traditions
• Palimpsest
• Hindu religion
• Metonymic thinking
• Oral tradition
• Synthesizing mindset
• Coexistence of opposite orientations
• Collectivist and individualist
• Hierarchical
• Holistic, analytic, and emotional, fatalist, harmonious and violence prone, spiritualist and materialist
• Context sensitive
• Variable
• Strategy for managing

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Series:

• Doing Business in India

Categories:

• Global Business Management

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Publication History

• Published on August 11, 2011