Publications

December 2006
Article

Identity as a Variable

By: Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnston and Rose McDermott

December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
Case

Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Rafael M. Di Tella and Prabakar (PK) Kothandaraman

Shortly after Infosys was founded in 1981, its managers faced a major turning point when they made a decision to operate without giving in to the petty corruption rife in the Indian economy. Within just a few years, that decision had truly defined the company. Over the... View Details

Keywords: History; Management Style; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Situation or Environment; Crime and Corruption; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; India

July 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Teaching Note

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry (TN)

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio

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Keywords: Markets; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho

June 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Teaching Note

Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China (TN)

Keywords: Asia; China

June 2006 (Revised March 2007)
Teaching Note

Journey to Sakhalin: Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia (TN) (A), (B), & (C)

Keywords: Energy Industry; Russia

June 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Teaching Note

Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings (TN)

Keywords: Public Sector; Credit; Financial Services Industry

June 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Teaching Note

Bohemian Crowns: Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka (TN) (A) & (B)

Keywords: Banking Industry; Czech Republic

April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and David Lane

In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian Science Park. JAFCO was the only Japanese private equity firm operating in China. As such, Managing Director Vincent... View Details

Keywords: History; International Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Effectiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China; Beijing; Japan

2006
Chapter

The IMF and the Capital Account

Keywords: International Finance; Capital

March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio

In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details

Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho

February 2006
Article

Writing the Rules of Global Finance: France, Europe, and Capital Liberalization

Keywords: International Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Capital; France; Europe

January 2006 (Revised March 2007)
Supplement

Politics and Prudential Supervision: ABN Amro's Bid for Antonveneta (B)

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner

Keywords: Investment Funds; Banking Industry

October 2005 (Revised February 2007)
Supplement

Journey to Sakhalin: Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia (B)

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Irina Tarsis

Keywords: Energy Industry; Russia

August 2005 (Revised October 2010)
Background Note

European Financial Integration

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner

Provides background on the history and status of financial integration in the European Union. Describes the pertinent treaty-based "fundamental freedoms," emphasizes challenges to further cross-border consolidation in the banking sector, and examines the regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Integration; Banking Industry; European Union

August 2005 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Politics and Prudential Supervision: ABN Amro's Bid for Antonveneta (A)

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner

Involves the March 2005 takeover bid launched by ABN Amro, the Dutch bank, for Padua-based Banca Antoniana Popolare Veneta S.p.A. (Antonveneta)--a bid that many would view as a test of Italy's commitment to the creation of a single European market for financial... View Details

Keywords: History; Transformation; Business and Government Relations; Integration; Competitive Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; European Union; Italy

August 2005
Article

To Judge Leviathan: Sovereign Credit Ratings, National Law, and the World Economy

By: Christopher Bruner and Rawi Abdelal

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Credit; Law; Economy

July/September 2005
Article

Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale

This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union... View Details

Keywords: Policy; International Finance; Globalization; France; European Union

2005
Chapter

Nationalism and International Political Economy in Eurasia