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German Business in India: Economic Expansion and Transnational Integration, 1950-1985.

德国在印度的商业：经济扩张和跨国一体化，1950-1985 年。

基本信息

批准号：
376572836
负责人：
Professor Dr. Christian Kleinschmidt
金额：
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依托单位：
Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2016-12-31 至 2019-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/376572836?language=en
关键词：
German Business India Economic Expansion

项目摘要

Since the 1970s the integration of industrialised and emerging economies happened under changed circumstances. Now, companies were looking for new production bases and networks in order to keep the pace of competitive international markets. The emerging economies became more important and interesting for business apart from their earlier status of mostly colonial providers of resources. By looking at the history of German businesses and their strategies in independent India, the project aims to account for the rising importance of such emerging economies in economic and business history. It asks how companies from the Federal Republic of Germany opened up or re-entered the Indian market from the 1950s onwards. India can be taken as a prime example for the economic and political interests of the West linked to decolonised emerging economies of that time.Methodically, this is done on two broad levels, where a) the macro-framework and b) micro-practices of international business in emerging and decolonised economies are analysed. The interests, expectations and room for manoeuvre of different economic and political actors make up the focal point of the study. On a macro-level, the study focuses on the institutional structures of economic integration. While focusing on the underlying conditions of going global, the study notably analyses changes in the regulatory and foreign economic policy framework and how actors from both Western Germany and India such as the Ministry for Economics, Ministry for Economic Cooperation, business associations and chambers of commerce influenced, structured or eventually inhibited processes of economic integration and business internationalisation. From a micro-perspective, the study focuses on the behaviour and strategies of individual businesses in Western Germany and India. Through a source-based empirical investigation of businesses from Western Germany, the project wants to investigate how individual businesses worked on the Indian market, taking into consideration the tension between business interests and the underlying broader political context in a risk environment such as the newly-independent India. With many companies from West Germany eager to (re-)enter the politically and economically risky Indian market after 1945 in the context of the Cold War, the study wants to investigate the economic and political expectations and adaption processes of businesses and economic policymakers from Germany once they made 'on the ground' experiences.For Western Germany, India became the toehold for its Asian development policy and assistance which should also benefit Western German business. The study analyses the formal and informal terms for economic action of West-German foreign businesses in emerging and decolonised economies. In this regard it assesses the importance of local knowledge and personnel integration for a successful expansion of German companies' business in India.

自20世纪70年代以来，工业化国家和新兴经济体的融合是在变化了的环境下发生的。现在，各公司正在寻找新的生产基地和网络，以便跟上竞争激烈的国际市场的步伐。新兴经济体除了早先主要是殖民地资源提供者的地位外，对企业来说变得更加重要和有趣。通过研究德国企业的历史及其在独立的印度的战略，该项目旨在说明这些新兴经济体在经济和商业史上日益重要的原因。报告询问了联邦共和国德国的公司自1950年代以来如何打开或重新进入印度市场。印度可以被视为西方与当时非殖民化的新兴经济体的经济和政治利益联系在一起的一个主要例子。有条不紊地，这是在两个广泛的层面上进行的，其中a）宏观框架和B）新兴和非殖民化经济体的国际商业微观实践进行了分析。不同经济和政治行为者的利益、期望和回旋余地是研究的重点。在宏观层面上，研究的重点是经济一体化的体制结构。在关注走向全球的基本条件的同时，该研究特别分析了监管和对外经济政策框架的变化，以及来自西方德国和印度的行为者，如经济部，经济合作部，商业协会和商会如何影响，结构或最终抑制经济一体化和商业国际化的进程。从微观的角度来看，这项研究的重点是在德国西部和印度的个体企业的行为和战略。通过对来自德国西部德国的企业进行基于来源的实证调查，该项目希望调查个体企业如何在印度市场上运作，同时考虑到在新独立的印度等风险环境中商业利益与潜在的更广泛政治背景之间的紧张关系。1945年后，在冷战的背景下，西德的许多公司渴望（重新）进入政治和经济风险很高的印度市场，这项研究希望调查德国企业和经济政策制定者一旦取得“实地”经验后的经济和政治预期以及适应过程。印度成为其亚洲发展政策和援助的立足点，这也应该有利于西德的商业。该研究分析了西德外国企业在新兴和非殖民化经济体中的经济行动的正式和非正式条款。在这方面，它评估了当地知识和人员融合对德国公司在印度成功扩展业务的重要性。