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What Explains the Productivity Decline in Manufacturing in the Nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillover: An Evaluation Across Different Clusters in India
Dua, Pami; Goldar, B N; Behera, Smruti Ranjan - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillover effect to domestic firms in a particular cluster, a model is used that combines an innovative...
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Improving governance using IT systems
Shah, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2005
The main argument of this paper is that in many situations, dicult puzzles of governance can be solved in dramatically new ways using modern IT systems. Nationwide centralised databases, coupled with ubiquitous high-speed Internet access, and pervasive computational power, has put a new set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487774
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An Emerging Knowledge Economy and a Stagnating Agrarian Economy: Contradictions in Andhra Pradesh under Globalization
Thomas, Jayan Jose - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper presents some features of the contradictions in Andhra Pradesh’s economy today: the fast growth of IT and other technology-intensive industries in Hyderabad, and the alarming levels of distress among small farmers and landless labourers in rural areas of the State. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528274
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The Effect of Information Technology on Wage Inequality: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Sector
Abraham, Vinoj - eSocialSciences - 2010
A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers. Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to explain such a phenomenon; an inter-sectoral shift in demand structure and an intra-sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727218
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Information Technology and Banking – A Continuing Agenda
Subbarao, D - eSocialSciences - 2009
Speech is about the role of IT in the Indian financial sector [Keynote address at the Banking Technology Awards 2008 of the Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad].
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Analysis of Internet Patenting Strategies of E-commerce Firms
Abraham, Biju Paul - eSocialSciences - 2010
Patents and patent applications are important indicators of innovative activity in industrial R & D, especially in areas such as Information Technology (IT), where technology growth is rapid. Within the IT sector this is especially true of patents for Internet-related technologies where...
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Executive Blogging: Indian Corporate Heads in the Blogosphere
Mishra, Smeeta; Kannan, Rajesh - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study analyzes the content, usability, interactivity and connectivity of Indian executive blogs. Results indicate that among the Indian CEOs and top executives who blog, most are associated with the Information Technology and Internet sectors.
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The Offshored World
Udupa, Sahana - eSocialSciences - 2007
There has been a clear change in the cultural milieu of the IT city Bangalore in the last few years. And while this may not be only due to the call centres that have sprouted providing high-paying jobs to thousands of young people, they are certainly a significant influence.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341693
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Decrypting E-Governance: Narratives, Power play and Participation in the Gyandoot Intranet
Sreekumar, T.T. - eSocialSciences - 2006
The mapping of the social and political constraints that marginalized communities and individuals encounter in their interface with e-governance projects, perhaps, has implications for the optimistic political vision of new media technologies as a decolonizing force facilitating development of...
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