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Arora, Ashish - 1999

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity...

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Managers and Productivity in Retail

Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences … across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices … this setting, managers move between stores but management practices are set by firm policy and largely fixed, allowing us …

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Crime and the timing of work

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1998

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Stock repurchases and incentive compensation

Jolls, Christine - 1998

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Information technology, workplace organization, and the demand for skilled labor : firm-level evidence

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The Evolution of Concentrated Ownership in India Broad patterns and a History of the Indian Software Industry

Khann, Tarun - 2004

As in many countries (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Sweden), concentrated ownership is a ubiquitous feature of the Indian private sector over the past seven decades. Yet, unlike in most countries, the identity of the primary families responsible for the concentrated ownership changes...

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The Globalization of the Software Industry : Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries

Arora, Asish - 2004

The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This paper addresses two sets of inter-related issues. First, we explore the determinants of these successful stories. We then touch upon the broader question of what lessons, if any,...

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Patent Commons, Thickets, and Open Source Software Entry by Start-Up Firms

Wen, Wen - 2013

We examine whether the introduction of a patent commons, a special type of royalty free patent pool available to the open source software (OSS) community influences new OSS product entry by start-up software firms. In particular, we analyze the impact of The Commons--established by the Open...

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Human capital and the Indian software industry

Arora, Ashish - 2010

Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have not empirically investigated its importance. In this study we study the effect of the supply of engineers, measured by engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth...

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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's IT Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley

Arora, Ashish - 2010

This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using comprehensive data on all IT patents granted by the USPTO from 1980-2002, we find strong evidence of a change in IT innovation that is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent...

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