US-India Cooperative Research: Organizational Architecture and Institutional Context - An Investigation Using Indian Business Groups

描述：该奖项支持美印合作研究项目《组织架构和机构背景--使用印度商业团体进行的调查》。阿肯色大学的US Pi Raja Kali和孟买英迪拉·甘地发展研究所(IGIDR)的Jayati Sarkar教授将研究印度的商业组织，重点是商业集团的治理。虽然商业集团在巴西、智利、香港、印度和印度尼西亚等新兴/转型经济体的私营部门工业活动中占据主导地位，但它们通常是混合组织，不按标准方式将其归类为公司或市场。这项研究的目的是研究印度商业集团的演变，并回答如下问题：什么决定了契约治理的主流模式，契约治理如何影响组织的规模和范围，以及对经济增长的影响是什么。范围：这项研究是由于需要更多地了解平稳运行的市场经济的制度基础。在过去的十年里，新兴经济体在走向市场导向的经济组织体系方面表现出持续的困难，但关于转型产业组织的研究却很少。美国和印度的研究人员都非常有资格开展这项研究，IGIDR是印度最先进、设备最齐全的社会科学研究机构之一，可以访问许多最重要的国内和国际发展研究数据库。这项研究是互惠互利的；它包括双方的研究生，并将加强进一步的两国合作网络。

Description: This award supports a US-India cooperative research project entitled Organizational Architecture and Institutional Context- An Investigation Using Indian Business Groups. US PI Raja Kali, University of Arkansas and Professor Jayati Sarkar, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai will study Indian business organizations with particular emphasis on governance of the business group. While business groups dominate private-sector industrial activity in emerging/transition economies such as Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong, India, and Indonesia; they are typically hybred organizations that do not classify in standard ways as either firms or markets. The objective of this research is to study the evolution of Indian business groups and answer questions such as what determines the prevailing mode of contractual governance, how does contractual governance affect the size and scope of the organization, and what are the implications for economic growth. Scope: This research is driven by a need for greater understanding of the institutional foundations of a smoothly functioning market economy. During the past decade, emerging economies have exhibited persistent difficulties in moving toward market-oriented systems of economic organization; however, the research on the industrial organization of transition is sparse. Both US and Indian investigators are well qualified to carry out this research, the IGIDR is one of India's most advanced and well-equipped research institutes for the social sciences with access to many of the most important national and international databases for research on development. This research is mutually beneficial; it includes graduate students on both sides and will strengthen networks for further binational collaboration.