Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, and Haiyan Wang are among the most distinguished experts in the field of globalization. In The Quest for Global Dominance they present the lessons from their twenty-year study of over two hundred corporations. They argue that, in order for a company to create and maintain its position as a globally dominant player, executives must ensure that their company leads its industry in the following four essential
Anil Kumar Gupta is a scholar in the area of grassroots innovations. He is the founder of the Honey Bee Network and has been a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Besides, he holds the Executive Vice Chair of the National Innovation Foundation.
It was used as a textbook for my Global Strategy class. As such, it wasn't the most entertaining book. It did present some interesting frameworks for looking at globalization. However, it seemed to borrow a lot from "The World is Flat", especially when discussing opportunities in India and China.
Nice read, very informative on how corporations have taken their learning's from both positive and negative experiences in one market and turned it around to their advantage in a future strategy.