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Author-Name: Niosi, Jorge
Author-Email: niosi.jorge@uqam.ca
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Management and Technology, University
	 of Québec at Montréal
Author-Name: Tschang, F. Ted 
Author-Email: tedt@smu.edu.sg
Author-Workplace-Name: School of Business, Singapore Management University
Title: Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market 
	 Strategies and Their Interplay  
Abstract: China and India are emerging as major new entrants in the international 
	 software industry. Both are rapidly learning through outsourcing with 
	 multinational enterprises from advanced nations. Yet, their paths to 
	 this dynamic sector are very different. Chinese software firms have 
	 focused on their domestic market by working with foreign MNCs, while 
	 they move cautiously abroad. Indian firms, despite already being large, 
	 continue to expand overseas as well as to climb the value chain. We show 
	 that a macro perspective on the global movement of work can be gained by 
	 utilizing concepts from different approaches to the MNC. At the same 
	 time, the innovation systems perspective is necessary to explain the 
	 foundations of the industry. The paper provides hypotheses and performs 
	 an initial validation of them. It concludes that the 
	 internationalization and learning processes are somewhat different in 
	 the Chinese and Indian MNCs, and provides explanations for the different 
	 patterns.
Classification-JEL: L23, L24, O14, O32, P45
Keywords: outsourcing, software industry, industrial development, MNCs, MNEs,
	 multinational enterprise, China, India
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 2008-050
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-050.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008050