The main results of our review are as follows; although there was great variety between the methodologies used, quantitative papers were the most frequent. With regard to journals, JWB, JIBS, IBR and APJM were the journals that had published the most papers on India during this period. The authors who had written the most on India were the following: Ramaswamy, who belongs to one of the institutions that contributed the most (Thunderbird: American Graduate School of International Management, USA), Budhwar, from the UK and Khanna, from the USA. The institution that contributed the most was the Indian Institute of Management, India. The most cited papers are those by Morris et al. (1998) and Mair and Martı ´ (2006). The most popular topics were cultural influence and comparison between countries, business practices, studies that focus on one sector or company in India, and business operations and management of foreign companies in India. Finally, after having analysed the results of all the papers under review, we can conclude that although the range and diversity of issues treated make it extremely difficult to establish any general conclusion, we can highlight several characteristics which are present in different aspects of Indian companies: a greater preference for bureaucratic structures than in developed countries; the key role of culture in performance and that culture, ownership control and trust need to be carefully considered in any endeavour to establish a joint-venture with an Indian company.