Challenges faced by Tata Group
Ratan Tata believed that all the Tata group companies had enough shareholdings in their associated
companies to be called as groups in their own rights. All throughout the history Tata group followed
precepts set by Jamsetji Tata. By 20th century the leadership was considered almost to be a static
business environment. However, due to the drastic changes in the economic liberalization Ratan Tata
was forced to restructure the group structure and strategy with respect to the changing environment.
Industrial licensing was brought in, the insurance ventures of the Tatas and their airlines were
nationalised. However, it was observed that Tata groups were slow to react towards the changing
demands of
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When in 1991, Ratan Tata took over as the chairman, the company was very low on the group
bonding quality. All the firms under the Tata group followed their own strategy and often their
business interest clashed which resulted in competition among various Tata firms.
The group lacked the spirit of central cohesiveness as there was no person to command them. Ratan
Tata lacked the kind of authority what his any of the predecessors had. There was strong resistance to
change that has been built over a century old legacy. Therefore, he had to ensure that a system to
restructure the group existed without which he could not carry out his intent. So, he wanted to
reposition the entire top management, to let the new vision percolate down to the parts of the empire
which were running independently. Rata Tata believed that a change in leadership style was required
as everyone was going off in their own direction under JRD Tata. J.J Irani, MD, Tata Steel
commented that in the present competitive environment, business strategies have to clearly defined,
structure of the business groups have to be streamlines and downsizing of people should be done
-The company was jointly held by 3 companies: Burmah shell, Shaw wallace & Tata steel.
A standout amongst the most well-known and regarded industrialists in India, Ratan Tata (Ratan Naval Tata), is the Chairman of the Tata Group which is situated in India and containing 98 working organizations spread across 56 countries in six continents. Ratan Tata, born on December 28, 1937 to Soonoo and Naval Hormusji Tata and is the great grandson of Jamsedji Tata founder of Tata group. Rattan’s childhood was troubled, his parents separated in the mid-1940 and Ratan and his brother were raised by their grandmother. He learned at the Campion School in Mumbai and at 15 years of age, he moved to the United States for further studies. He finished his graduation from Cornell University with a degree in Architecture and Structural Engineering in 1962 and briefly worked with Jones and Emmons in Los Angeles. He was offered a position at IBM, which he turned down on the advice of JRD Tata. He finished the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 197510. Left to him, Ratan Tata would most likely have stayed on in the United States in the wake of preparing as a draftsman at Cornell University. However the child of appointee gathering director Naval Tata and the nephew of JRD Tata couldn 't be permitted to work outside the gathering. In 1962, Ratan joined the family business, taking a shot at the Tata Steel shop floor at Jamshedpur, working with
They did not enjoy profit rather they faced losses from their acquired properties outside the home country. So they divested and shifted to small equity with management contract, primarily to gain profit and for globalization, for their hotel group of Tata Globalization strategies of Tata group
When the East India companies were formed, they changed how business was done. These companies had stocks that would pay dividends on all of the proceeds from all of the voyages that the companies undertook, rather than going on a voyage by voyage basis. They were the first modern joint stock companies, which allowed them to demand more for their shares, and in time, build larger fleets. The size of the companies, along with their royal charters which forbid competition, meant huge profits for those that could invest.
Difficulty in finding similarities in markets or operational capabilities; Tata has more than 100 operating companies in seven main business groups doing business in 80 countries: chemicals, information systems and communications, consumer products, energy, engineering, materials, and services. It’s difficult to find similarities in markets or operational capabilities, so they need more effort to develop to different strategies for different markets especially for consumer products. More complex and challenging process of managing strategically it face.
was that change was an incremental process (Quinn, 1980) and that the best way to
Chapter 7: Merger and Acquisition Strategy ---- House of Tata: Acquiring a Global Footprint (written by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, and Richard J. Bullock)
were silenced. Tanishq, today, is perhaps the only major Tata brand with a strong appeal for
The business activities of companies and other organizations in the modern socio-economic system have expanded in scale, diversified, and become globalized to a degree not experienced previously. A great number of companies have been established corresponding to each purpose, and group management is practiced.
1. Given that, Fiat existed and operated in India for long why did it decide to form a strategic alliance with Tata?
Political Tata Motors operates in a vast amount of places all across the world . They’ve had great success in regions like Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. When it come to politics influences Tata Motors need to pay close attention to Laws and regulations as well as the governing bodies that control the area. Local governments regulate commerce, trade, and investments. The local markets and economies are all influenced by national and local influences.
Since its establishment, Tata has shown a strategy of incremental change. Arguably, that point was important because so the group might vary within the current market. In the nineteenth – century steel was seen as an unprofitable section. Even more than 50 independent steel producers went into bankruptcy in the USA (Business Monitor International Ltd, 2010: 54).
After World War II, the widespread implementation of colonial rule was ended and widespread post-colonial self-governance began. These fledgling states were mostly provided with a framework for governance that was left over from the previous colonial rule. The Parliament of India largely mirrors that of England, and this creates fundamental issues within the governance and creation of a new state, especially one with India’s population. An already established style of governance has ways of being manipulated by outside forces that have been working within these frameworks for decades, possibly even a century or more, namely private corporations. When a private corporation effects a government in their own self interest, the corporate entity generally externalizes all risk to the governmental body and the public. In many cases, government intervention in the form of regulation or deregulation can allow for a trans-national corporate entity to exploit laws and operate in an unethical, but legal manner. In 1956, the nine year old Indian government passed the Companies Act of 1956, requiring, “affiliates of foreign companies to register as separate companies under Indian Law and imposes limits on foreign investment and participation in all Indian companies” (Peterson 2). Union Carbide, an American multi-national chemical conglomerate, wholly owned its Indian subsidiary and after the passage of the Companies Act. Union Carbide was required to reduce its ownership of
Ratan promoted through TIL in mid 1980’s and mid 1990’s a total of 20 solo and joint ventures with combined sales of Rs.7.5billion as in (FY 96)whilst maintaining a 25 to 50% share and controlling interest.
It was 9:15am on 25 April 2006. An article published in that day’s Economic Times, a leading Indian financial daily, had attracted the attention of both Mr Ravi Singhania and Ms Manju Mohotra. Singhania was the founder and managing partner of Singhania and Partners,1 one of the largest full-service national law firms in India; Mohotra was its chief executive. The Indian legal services industry had been booming since the country’s economic liberalisation, which had started in the 1990s. The exponential growth of this industry was accompanied by an acute talent crunch. The ability to hire and retain talent was becoming a source of