World Class Faculty & Research / September 30, 2014

The Silk Road Rediscovered

China’s fastest-growing luxury auto seller is not from Europe, Japan or the United States. The honor goes to Tata Motors from India. Meanwhile, Shanghai Electric earns its largest revenue outside China from India.

Anil K. Gupta, the Michael Dingman Chair in Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship, shows how Indian and Chinese companies are winning in each other’s markets in his new book, “The Silk Road Rediscovered.”

“They are whetting their appetite for further global expansion, ensuring that they will have two of the world’s four largest economies by 2025,” Gupta says.

His book, co-authored with Haiyan Wang, MBA ’95, and Girija Pande, explores the growing corporate linkages between the regional powerhouses. Examples include China’s Xinxing and India’s Mahindra.

Several media outlets in China, India, Singapore and the United States have highlighted the research, and more coverage is planned. “This is the first and only book so far on this topic,” says Gupta, recognized on the Indian and global Thinkers 50 lists of management thought leaders.

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