Coping with global institutional change : a tale of India's textile and pharmaceutical industries

"Increased governance of international trade through supra-national institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) has meant that national economic objectives and associated trade policies need to be compatible with the norms of global institutions. Global institutional change impacts national economies and necessitates adaptation in ways that balance adherence to emerging norms while maintaining broad socio-economic national objectives. This book focuses on two sector-specific global institutional changes initiated and implemented by the WTO in 2005 and examines how India's textile and pharmaceutical industries coped with these changes through coordinated efforts in the multi-level national institutional system comprised of the state, industry and individual business organisations. The findings of the book, which show both convergence and divergence across the two industries in the processes and outcomes of dealing with global institutional change, would be of interest to national policy-makers as well as to scholars in multiple disciplines interested in the study of institutions and institutional change."