, and industry officials everywhere generally anticipate the increasing competitiveness of India in high technology … activities. Using a structural framework, the author argues that Bangalore's (and India's) information technology (IT) industry … thick institutional architecture is in reality quite thin. This is due to a particular type of an export-oriented model …

, and industry officials everywhere generally anticipate the increasing competitiveness of India in high technology … activities. Using a structural framework, the author argues that Bangalore's (and India's) information technology (IT) industry … thick institutional architecture is in reality quite thin. This is due to a particular type of an export-oriented model …

This paper examines the productivity of firms and their ability to enter the export market, i.e., the self …-selection hypothesis and the determinants of labour productivity at the firm level for India's major exporting manufacturing industries … during 1991-2009. The paper also examines whether export intensity at the firm level differs between domestic-controlled and …