© 2024, Farok J. Contractor, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Business School India, with its expanding economy, has finally arrived on the world stage as a potentially very important market and supply chain partner for multinational companies. What factors within the country attract multinationals to engage in foreign direct investment (FDI) in India? What factors within India still prove to be an impediment to potential investors or cause restraint from the companies’ point of view?

Image Credit: "Freedom from Want" - The Saturday Evening Post Cover of March 6, 1943, by Norman Rockwell – US National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain © 2024 Farok J. Contractor, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Business School As Americans sit down to their Thanksgiving Day repasts each year, they are taught to recall the story of the “Pilgrim Fathers,” who in 1620 founded one of the first English settlements in North America at what was then Plimoth Colony in the State of Massachusetts.