Case Bhiwar Enterprises Term Paper

Bhiwar Enterprises Brief summary of the import facts

Currently, the enterprise in question is employing ineffective import techniques to maximize its potential within its current cultural context. Conflicts between family members inhabit the full and expeditious use of all of the assets of the company. Family connections, patronage, and internal loyalties determine who is promoted and who fulfills leadership positions, rather than actual merit. At present, there has been a resistance to changing the current management structure as well.

State the problems or questions concisely

At present, the importing problems are gripping Bhiwar Enterprises are not only those of goods traded, but a recently imported a new individual into the company's fold, namely one Pratap Bhiwar. This individual returned after one year in an MBA program in the United States. Understandably, Bhiwar was eager to apply the concepts he has learned to his family's business.

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However, by applying Untied States business systems of ethics, of valuing individual employees' potential worth to the company, rather than preexisting family and community structures inevitably produced conflict within the company's leadership framework.
Moreover, Bhiwar neglected to take into consideration, despite his extensive technical knowledge, that he had reentered a country where economic systems of patronage, as well as familial and personal systems of knowledge, were of equal importance as to what was rationally expeditious for a business to pursue.

Moreover, Pratap Bhiwar should not have automatically assumed that he has the ear of the company's main leaders. Although he was the nephew of one of the retired brothers, this meant that he was currently not part of the family management structure. His travel to the United States and subsequent education in business ethics and techniques, if anything, alienated him from…

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