Reliance Industries Ltd
Subject
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Publication Year
1996
Abstract
Starting from an initial investment of $2,000 in 1958 to start a trading house, followed by the setting up of his first tiny manufacturing facility in 1966, Dhirubhai Ambani - The founder and chairman of Reliance Industries Limited and perhaps the most celebrated Indian industrialist of his generation - has built up a synthetic fibre, textiles and petrochemicals giant that, with a market capitalisation of $2.7 billion in 1994, has emerged as the largest private sector company in India. The case describes the story of this phenomenal growth, through continuous vertical and horizontal diversification and of the management approach that has shaped and supported this growth process.
Topic List
Managing Growth, Diversification and Vertical Integration, Managing in an Emerging Economy
Industry
Chemicals; Synthetic Fibres
Publication Event Date
1994-1995
LBS Case Number
CS-96-041
Location
India
Project Funder
DFID
Available on ECCH
No
