ABSTRACT
Nepal is a small, landlocked country that straddles the Himalayan mountain range in south Asia. To its north, Nepal shares a common border with China, and to its south, it shares a common border with India. India and China dwarf Nepal in both scale and scope. As a result, Nepal is often overlooked when talking about Asia, in general, and south Asia, more specifically. Numerous examples exist of Nepal’s “invisibility” in the academic and professional business/management literature. One current illustration will suffice. In the World Economic Forum’s most recent Global Competitiveness Report (Porter, Schwab, and Cornelius 2003), Nepal is omitted in the large appendix of country profiles. A review of the global management literature reveals a similar pattern. Few if any books or articles explore the special management issues and challenges relative to Nepal. This chapter begins to fill in that gap.
