In keeping with the exemplary tradition of bringing out scholarly works of repute by IPE, the Volumes planned and prepared by the authors is a modest attempt to take stock of an explosion of literature on SOEs that has emerged during the last five decades. Drawn from a wide range of social science and management disciplines, these volumes bring together the research works in terms of empirical, theoretical and policy papers pertaining to cross-disciplinary themes and sub-themes which have been distilled and designed to provide the academics, policymakers, practitioners and researchers on the subject of SOEs in India and abroad.