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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...

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Offshoring in a Ricardian World

Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - eSocialSciences - 2007

Falling costs of coordination and communication have allowed firms in rich countries to fragment their production process and offshore an increasing share of the value chain to low-wage countries. This paper proposes a Ricardian model where both of these effects are present and analyzes the...

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Outsourcing Versus Foreign Direct Investment: A Welfare Analysis

Grover, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2010

country may avail options like – Joint venture, technology licensing, franchising, outsourcing etc. A host country’s choice of … outsourcing in the host country using Grossman-Helpman quality ladders framework. If the host absorptive capacity is above a … threshold level, outsourcing is more welfare enhancing vis-à-vis FDI; while even with lower than threshold absorptive capacity …

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Strategic Orientation of Outsourcing Firms: Demystifying Key Differentiators

Sharda, Kirti - eSocialSciences - 2010

Despite the importance of outsourcing firms and the highly competitive nature of the outsourcing industry, there has … been minimal examination of outsourcing firm strategy. This paper investigates the strategic focus of 60 outsourcing firms …. Factor and cluster analysis reveal three outsourcing firm archetypes based on their strategic orientation, namely, super …

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The Role of Technological Complexity and Absorptive Capacity in Internalization Decision

Grover, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2010

Technology transfer costs have a profound influence on the firm’s entry mode into a production sharing relationship. To explore this nexus, they associate technological complexity of the off-shored input with the organizational mode of international production sharing by extending the Antràs...

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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.

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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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Review of The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction

Pazhayathodi, Brijesh - eSocialSciences - 2008

Review of The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction" by Hal R. Varian, Joseph Farrell, Carl Shapiro, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, pages 102, Price Rs. 795 RBI Occasional Papers, Winter 2006.

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Budget Expectations

IRIS, IRIS India - eSocialSciences - 2011

Budget expectations from various sectors are given. URL:[ http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/storyShow.php?fileR=20110217120638043&secID=fromnewsroom&secTitle=From the News Room&dir=2011/02/17].

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Vital Stats: Parliament Budget Session 2012

Kumar, Rohit; Malik, Devika - eSocialSciences - 2012

Parliament met for the Budget Session between March 16 and May 22 with a three-week recess in April. Both Houses met for 35 days each. A special sitting was convened on Sunday, May 13 to commemorate 60 years since the first sitting of Parliament. In addition to the General and Railways Budgets,...

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