http://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/feb/01inter.htm?q=tp&file=.htm


"The first weakness surprisingly is that we can't compete globally as we are organised primarily as small and medium enterprises. Unless we consolidate within the country, it will be difficult. We have too many smaller operators. You need scale to be globally competitive. Scale gives you mostly procurement advantages. This is the key difference between global Chinese corporations and Indian companies. For e.g., 65 per cent of the luggage industry in India is unorganised and unbranded. "

Everything from the marketing point of view...every sales / marketing person has a very ROSY picture with a lot of 'if's' for the owners...nothing wrong with it, but what about the viability..

To move from medium scale to large scale we can very well imagine the mental stress on HR dept managing over 200 people in a typical indian state, be it Maharashtra (including Mumbai), West bengal or any state for that matter, with the union leaders, politicians and all sorts of mafia looking for thier share of the pie...

Nothing of this sort happens in China, though being a communist country, the owner of an enterprise hardly has to worry about the 4000 or 5000 employees he may be hiring.

My 2 cents.

Hiren