Doing business in india
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Table des matières
PART I : OVERVIEW OF INDIA
GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION 4
DEMOGRAPHY 5
CULTURAL ASPECTS: UNITY AMONG DIVERSITY 5 LANGUAGE: 5 RELIGION 6
ECONOMICS 7 THE INDIAN ECONOMY MATURES OVER THE YEARS 8
PART II : CROSS CULTURAL ISSUES WHEN WORKING IN INDIA
GENERAL BEHAVIOR 10
LANGUAGE BARRIER 12
HIERARCHY IN INDIAN ORGANIZATIONS 13
INDIRECT COMMUNICATION STYLE 14
TIME ORIENTATION 15
HARD WORK VIS-À-VIS SMART WORK ISSUE 15
PART III: INDIA DO'S AND DON’T'S
ACCEPTABLE PUBLIC BEHAVIOR 16
BUSINESS ATTIRE 17
CONVERSATIONS AND NETWORKING 17
MEETINGS, PRESENTATIONS, AND NEGOTIATION TACTICS 17
DINNER ETIQUETTE 18
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PART 1: OVERVIEW OF INDIA
GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION
India is a country located in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical and also the second-most populous country in the world.
This country is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east.
India has a coastline of 7,517 kilometers. It is bordered by Pakistan to the west, People's Republic of China (PRC), Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Indonesia in the Indian Ocean.
DEMOGRAPHY
With about 1.17 billion people, which represent 17 % of the world population, India is the world's second most populous country. Since 50 years, the country has seen an important and rapid increase thanks to many improvements in medicine and an important increase in the agricultural productivity made by the green revolution.
The most part of the population (70 %) live in the rural areas. But they have been migrated to larger cities which has caused a huge increase in the country’s urban population. India's largest cities are Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Delhi, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Chennai (formerly Madras),