What is it about?
The first start of the article occurred when Nir Kshetri was doing the fieldwork for his doctoral dissertation in India, under the supervision of Nikhilesh Dholakia. In his fieldwork, Nir found that many factors played a role in India's emergence as an IT services hub... with the NASSCOM role being prominent. The two authors did additional explorations to sketch out this model of NASSCOM's role.
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Why is it important?
While NASSCOM was very successful in making India a global IT services hub, the strategy and methods it followed have now been widely emulated by other nations in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The follow-up work needed, by strategists in India and by researchers, is how to move quickly up the value chain of software development. India is struggling in this regard. Work is needed on where the breakout possibilities are for innovation.
Perspectives
The field of service outsourcing (and the related area of manufacturing outsourcing) keeps evolving in new and complex ways, including smaller but significant processes of "inshoring", "backshoring", etc. -- where some of the work that went offshore is brought back to US or EU.
Dr Nikhilesh Dholakia
University of Rhode Island
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This page is a summary of: Professional and trade associations in a nascent and formative sector of a developing economy: A case study of the NASSCOM effect on the Indian offshoring industry, Journal of International Management, June 2009, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2008.09.003.
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Resources
Nir Kshetri on Google Scholar
Several related books and articles appear in Dr. Nir Kshetri's bibliographic site on Google Scholar.
NASSCOM India
A rich site featuring news, blogs, research reports, interviews and more. An important portal into software and IT services sectors in India.
Thomas Friedman and the 'Flat World'
As a well-known public intellectual, NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman first brought to the general public's attention the growing role of India in IT services and software.
Social-Economic Change in India: Dholakia and Sinha article
Changes in software and IT services in India are part of the ongoing general process of socioeconomic and cultural change... this free-to-download Open Access paper explains early changes in modern retailing in India.
Google Scholar Page: Nikhilesh Dholakia
A portal into other works, including aspects of globalization, of this author.
Full Text: Pre-Pub version
Archived at DigitalCommons, University of Rhode Island (URI).
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