Emerging Economies = Emerging Markets

Mention India, and you will likely start to draw fire about taking away jobs from Americans and sending them offshore, how frustrating it is to deal with customer support in India, etc.  But just a slightly closer look at business news will reveal that businesses are increasingly looking at India (and China and emerging economies [...]

Talking about Race and the Global Economy

One of my favorite business authors, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, just put up a post on the Harvard Business School blog about the Gates arrest and its connections to global business management, “Henry Louis Gates and the Global Economy.” She went straight for the jugular on this issue, emphasizing that:
The incident is about race, regardless of [...]

Globalization of Legal Services Models

One of my business partners,  Matthew Sullivan, has just published an article on the trend of globalizing legal services, both through legal process outsourcing (LPO) and shared service centers.   The article appears on Phil Fersht’s Horses for Sources blog, one of the leading blogs about the outsourcing industry and business globalization in general.
In the article, [...]

Reviews of India’s Open-Economy Policy

As noted in an earlier post, Jalal Alamgir’s new book, India’s Open-Economy Policy: Globalism, Rivalry, Continuity, was recently published by Routledge.
Dr. Alamgir’s book was just selected by Asia Policy as one of two dozen recommended books for its 2008 Policymakers Library, and one of only two books focused on India.  You can download the PDF with the reviews of [...]

India’s Open-Economy Policy

It brings me great pleasure to note that my business partner’s book, India’s Open-Economy Policy:  Globalism, Rivalry, Continuity, has just been released by Routledge.  Congratulations, Jalal!
In the book, Dr. Alamgir argues that India chose to open its economy because of a wish to have a more visible role in the global economy, especially in relation [...]