Dot.compradors - Jyoti Saraswati

Dot.compradors

Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry

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Buch | Softcover
184 Seiten
2012
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3265-9 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
Why the celebrated Indian IT industry is an obstacle to an egalitarian form of development in India
'India Shining' has become the brand name for a new India presented in Bollywood films, adverts and books. A key part of this image is the software industry, held up as the symbol of prosperity and post-modernity.



Dot.compradors reveals the darker reality behind 'India Shining', providing a history of the industry from the 1970s to the present. Jyoti Saraswati punctures the myth of a free-market industry by revealing the role of state intervention and how vested interests and elite corruption have shaped, and continue to shape, one of the world’s most dynamic sectors.



Saraswati argues that the interests attached to the software industry and the policies they are pursuing are both an impediment to the growth of local software firms and to a broader-based, more egalitarian form of development in India.

Jyoti Saraswati teaches on the Business and Political Economy Program at the Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU). He is the author of Dot.compradors (Pluto, 2012) and co-editor of Beyond the Developmental State (Pluto, 2013).

Preface


Acknowledgements


A Note on the Terminology


Glossary


List of Figures


A Primer: the Seven Leading Myths about the Indian IT Industry


1. Introduction


Part I: The Context


2. The Global Software Services Industry: An Overview


3. The Development of the Software Industry in India: Existing Explanations and their Shortcomings


4. The Political Economy of State Intervention and Industrial Transformation: An Analytical Framework


Part II: The Development of the Indian IT Industry


5. IT Started with a War


6. Catalytic Corruption: The Domestic Software Services Boom, 1978-1986


7. Manna from Heaven: Satellites, Optic Fibres and the Export Thrust, 1986-2000


8. Passage to India: The Giants in the Land of the Majors, 2000-2010


Part III: The Analysis


9. The Indian Mutiny: From Potential IT Superpower to Back Office of the World


10. Lessons from the Lies: What Does IT Mean?


11. Conclusion: Of Compradors and Useful Idiots


Notes


Appendices


Index

Reihe/Serie IIPPE
Zusatzinfo 8 b&w figures
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 215 mm
Gewicht 222 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Wirtschaftsinformatik
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 0-7453-3265-X / 074533265X
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-3265-9 / 9780745332659
Zustand Neuware
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