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

2007-08-07 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 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 moment

[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

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 same