Re: [silk] Ethics in big Indian companies

2007-08-07 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 07/08/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/7/2007 2:06 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > > > The government has been largely ineffective in controlling monopolies > > in India - probably because in most industries, the biggest players > > are government-owned at the momen

Re: [silk] Ethics in big Indian companies

2007-08-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 8/7/2007 2:06 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > The government has been largely ineffective in controlling monopolies > in India - probably because in most industries, the biggest players > are government-owned at the moment (Telecom - BSNL, Banking - SBI, > Insurance - LIC etc.). The "watchdog

Re: [silk] Ethics in big Indian companies

2007-08-07 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 06/08/07, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) Lack of competition (of good service providers) Or in other words, monopolies. The government has been largely ineffective in controlling monopolies in India - probably because in most industries, the biggest players are government-owned at

Re: [silk] Ethics in big Indian companies

2007-08-06 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: [interesting exercise I must admit] > Why things are so bad even in "Big" companies: > > 1) Popular feeling among both the elite and common man > that we can't change things as they are. > (imagine if Mahatma Gandhi had felt the s

[silk] Ethics in big Indian companies

2007-08-06 Thread Deepa Mohan
On an egroup that I moderate, we have been having discussions about the business ethics,Ior lack thereof, in large Indian companies. t started with our rating of various Internet Service Providers and went on to mobile phone companies. Several names were, of course mentioned, but I am not bringing