FLORIAN BECKER-RITTERSPACH is Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, at the department of International Business and Management. His international career involved studies and research stays at the Humboldt University of Berlin, The New School of Social Research, New York and recently at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Specializing on the Indian automobile industry and cross-border transfers of organizational forms and practices within the context multinational corporations, he has presented his work at various international conferences and journals.