Understanding the Rise and Transformation of Business Collective Action in India

Sinha, Aseema

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“…The Association of Indian Engineering Industry (AIEI) was persuaded to reinvent itself into an all‐encompassing Confederation of Indian Industry. This conversion was facilitated by the access that Rajiv Gandhi accorded AIEI in matters of governance (Sinha, 2005).…”

Section: The Political Economy Of Reformsmentioning

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The Political Economy of India's Economic Reforms*

Mukherji

2008

Asian Economic Policy Review

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This paper analyzes the history of the relationship between the state and the private sector in India. It concludes that India's economic reforms, which made development policy more dependent on international trade and private initiative, depended on the evolution of technocratic and political conviction. Reformers needed the support of financial crises for overcoming the powerful vested interests opposed to reforms. Successful reforms involved largely homegrown strategies of policy and institutional change. They have produced impressive growth rates and have benefited the rich and the middle class. The challenge for development and sustainable reforms is to make it more inclusive for poor farmers and unorganized workers.

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Section: The Political Economy Of Reformsmentioning

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“…9 9 On the influential role of the Confederation of Indian Industry, see Mukherji (2007) and Dash (1999). In 1991/92, Sinha (2005), Kochanek (2007), and Pederson (2000). …”

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Mukherji

2008

Asian Economic Policy Review

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“…However, the Indian context adds an interesting political twist of its own. Sinha (2005) argues that in a bid to find support for liberalisation of the economy Rajeev Gandhi in 1985 invited policy inputs from the Association of Indian Engineering Industry (AIEI), a special interest group and predecessor of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He did this because the existing trade body, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), was 'protectionist, weak, and fractionalised and had acquired vested interests in the continuation of the regulatory system rather than its withdrawal' (Sinha, 2005: 10).…”

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“…Indeed one may speculate whether this might plant the seeds for the emergence of a new political class, reducing the power of existing interest groups such as business houses and farmers groups. Certainly there is writing from political scientists on Indian political economy that supports such a conjecture -for example, Scoones (2003) and Sinha (2005).…”

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Industry Associations and Technology-based Growth in India

Athreye

Chaturvedi

2007

Eur J Dev Res

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The study of industry associations occupies an uneasy ground in development economics. There is much empirical work that shows that industry associations fulfil important developmental roles in developing countries, often compensating for inadequacies in the business environment. Yet their status as institutions capable of generating growth is compromised because of the rent-seeking behaviour they embody. We study two different technology-based industries, namely software services and biotechnology, both of which formed industry associations to influence government policy and to aid the growth of their member firms, paying attention to their motivations for setting up, detailing the policies they sought to influence and their success as organisations. L'�tude des associations d'industrie occupe une position difficile dans l'�conomie du d�veloppement. De nombreux travaux empiriques montrent que les associations d'industrie remplissent un r�le important dans les pays en d�veloppement o� elles compensent souvent un environnement des affaires inad�quat. Leur r�le en mati�re de d�veloppement et leur impact sur la croissance sont maintenant compromis en raison de comportements de rente. Nous �tudions deux industries technologiques, � savoir les services logiciels et les biotechnologies, qui ont toutes les deux cr�� des associations d'industrie afin d'influer sur les politiques gouvernementales et afin d'appuyer la croissance de leurs membres, en accordant de l'attention � leur motivations d'implantation, en pr�cisant les politiques qu'elles cherchent � influencer et les raisons de leurs succ�s en tant qu'organisation.

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“… 26 The politics of economic reforms in India are the object of a vast literature. The following elements are derived in particular from Jenkins (1999), Sinha (2005), Gupta and Sivaramakrishnan (2011), Hasan (2012), Mukherji (2013), Kohli (2012), and Corbridge, Harriss and Jeffrey (2013). …”

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CSR public policies in India's democracy: ambiguities in the political regulation of corporate conduct

Krichewsky¹

2017

Bus. Polit.

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The rise of public policies in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) suggests a reassertion of state power over a phenomenon initially designed to weaken public authorities. But depending on policy objectives and underlying state-business relationships, CSR public policies seem to oscillate between the steering of corporate conduct towards political goals and the provision of political support to business interests. The present paper offers new perspectives on this ambiguity. Using social systems theory to guide a comparative study of two major Indian CSR policies, the analysis distinguishes two levels. At a functional level, the introduction of CSR in Indian regulatory politics produced more or less constraining expectations that open up opportunities for companies to participate in the performance of political functions. At an operational level, however, even a “mandatory” policy designed primarily according to political calculations let companies decide how they perform these functions. This persistence of voluntarism, which is supported by the semantic properties of “CSR,” consolidates the role of profit-driven calculations in the regulation of corporate conduct and, in the Indian case, in the redistribution of resources for social welfare. Research perspectives on the implications of CSR public policies for democracy are outlined in concluding remarks.

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Understanding the Rise and Transformation of Business Collective Action in India

Cited by 29 publications

References 37 publications

The Political Economy of India's Economic Reforms*

The Political Economy of India's Economic Reforms*

Industry Associations and Technology-based Growth in India

CSR public policies in India's democracy: ambiguities in the political regulation of corporate conduct

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