The contributors explore the rapid growth of Indian multinationals and provide valuable insights into the patterns and trends of their outward investments and the factors that led to their emergence in the global FDI market. They also look at their continuously evolving strategies in the global economy.

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KARL P. SAUVANT Founding Executive Director of the Vale Columbia Centre on Sustainable International Investment and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, USA.

JAYA PRAKASH PRADHAN Associate Professor at Sardar Patel Institute of Economic& Social Research (SPIESR), Ahmedabad, India.

AYESHA CHATTERJEE is a J.D. candidate at Columbia Law School, where she is a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Public Affairs Editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. She previously worked as a financial analyst in securitization at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Huntsman Program for International Studies and Business, through which she received a B.S. in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Business & Public Policy from the Wharton School and a B.A. in International Studies.

BRIAN HARLEY is an LL.M. candidate at Columbia Law School, and a graduate of the London School of Economics (LL.B.) and Sussex University (M.A.). He has worked as a lawyer on investment-related matters with Mason Hayes+Curran in Dublin, Ireland, and King & Wood P.R.C. Laywers in Beijing, China.

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Preface Foreword Introduction: The Rise of Indian Multinational Enterprises; J.Prakash Pradhan & K.P.Sauvant In Search of the 'Indianness' of Indian Multinational Enterprises; M.W.Hansen Political Factors Behind the Rise of Indian Multinational Enterprises; J.Dige Pedersen When a Great Industry Globalizes: Indian Conglomerates Pioneering New Trends in Industrial Globalization; J.Ruet Indian Multinational Enterprises in the Automotive and Pharmaceutical Industries; G.Balcet & S.Bruschieri Outward Investment by Indian Pharmaceutical and Software Multinational Enterprises; V.Kathuria Indian Companies Investing in the United States; N.Dasgupta The Emergence of Indian Multinational Enterprises: an Empirical Study of the Motives, Current Status, and Trends of Indian Investment in Germany; R.Tiwari & C.Herstatt The Surge in Indian Outbound Foreign Direct Investment to Africa; P.Pal