The Role of Religious and Nationalist Ethics in Strategic Leadership: The Case of J. N. Tata

摘要: This paper examines the role that religious ethics, complemented by a nationalist principle, can play in sustained exercise of strategic leadership, hypothesizing positive association with societal reputation for credibility or integrity. The key to this relation is constraining effect on financial pressures, even if there coherence long-term. J. N. Tata, founder Tata Industries who lived British India, was Parsee priest and an advocate Indian national self-reliance ultimately independence. Even as Tata's two ethics dovetailed his business interests long-term, they conflicted sufficiently calculus some immediate intermediate such he could enjoy sterling transcending businessman.