caa a22 4500 388070064 CHVBK 20180307125145.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700022889 doi S0022050700022889 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700022889 Why Nations Fail: Managerial Decisions and Performance in Indian Cotton Textiles, 1890-1938 [Elektronische Daten] Between 1890 and 1938 Japan experienced rapid economic growth. India stagnated. This national divergence was reflected in the performance of both countries' leading modern industiy, cotton textiles. The parallels between national and industry performance suggest the problems of the Indian textile industry may have been those of India as a whole. Weak management is widely blamed for poor performance in textiles. An analysis of managerial decisions in Bombay shows, however, that on all measurable dimensions Indian managers performed as well as they could. The problem instead was one factor they could not change—the effort levels of Indian workers. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 Wolcott Susan Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677 Clark Gregory Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8578 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 397-423 0022-0507 59:2<397 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022889 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022889 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wolcott Susan Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677 NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clark Gregory Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8578 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 397-423 0022-0507 59:2<397 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge