The Indian IT Services Industry: A Scholarly Bibliography

“I am not quite sure you know what you have actually done. You have seriously innovated when everybody said we hadn’t innovated. What you have done is, you have taken the entire chain of software from the customer to the last line of code, you have dis-aggregated the chain and you have then taken different pieces and done them differently and put it together again.” - CK Prahalad, on the Indian IT services industry

Reading this list of articles and books would help develop a rigorous understanding (at an industry level) of the evolution/business model of the Indian IT Services Industry. Why do you need such an understanding? (Think!) This list is not MECE (mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive). Additions/modifications/suggestions are welcome :)

Bhatnagar, S. C., & Madon, S. (1997). The Indian software industry: moving towards maturity. Journal of Information Technology, 12(4), 277-288.

Arora, A., & Asundi, J. (1999). Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development: A Study of the Indian Software Industry (No. w7260). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Arora, A., Arunachalam, V. S., Asundi, J., & Fernandes, R. (2001). The Indian software services industry. Research Policy, 30(8), 1267-1287.

Kumar, N. (2001). Indian software industry development: international and national perspective. Economic and Political Weekly, 4278-4290.

Nath, P., & Hazra, A. (2002). Configuration of Indian software industry. Economic and Political Weekly, 737-742.

Patibandla, M., & Petersen, B. (2002). Role of transnational corporations in the evolution of a high-tech industry: the case of India's software industry. World Development, 30(9), 1561-1577.

Athreye, S. S. (2004). “Role of Transnational Corporations in the Evolution of a High-Tech Industry: The Case of India’s Software Industry”––A Comment. World Development, 32(3), 555-560.

Dayasindhu, N. (2002). Embeddedness, knowledge transfer, industry clusters and global competitiveness: a case study of the Indian software industry. Technovation, 22(9), 551-560.

Arora, A., & Athreye, S. (2002). The software industry and India’s economic development. Information Economics and Policy, 14(2), 253-273.

Desai, A. (2003). The dynamics of the Indian information technology industry. Center for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School.

Upadhya, C. (2004). A new transnational capitalist class? Capital flows, business networks and entrepreneurs in the Indian software industry. Economic and Political Weekly, 5141-5151.

Ethiraj, S. K., Kale, P., Krishnan, M. S., & Singh, J. V. (2005). Where do capabilities come from and how do they matter? A study in the software services industry. Strategic management journal, 26(1), 25-45.

Arora, A., & Gambardella, A. (2005). The globalization of the software industry: perspectives and opportunities for developed and developing countries. Innovation Policy and the Economy, 5, 1-32.

Khanna, T., & Palepu, K. (2005). The evolution of concentrated ownership in India: broad patterns and a history of the Indian software industry. In A History of Corporate Governance Around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers (pp. 283-324). University of Chicago Press.

Athreye, S. S. (2005). The Indian software industry and its evolving service capability. Industrial and Corporate Change, 14(3), 393-418.

Kaka, N., & Sinha, J. (2005). An upgrade for the Indian IT services industry. McKinsey Quarterly, Special Edition, 84-89.

Arora, A., & Gambardella, A. (2005). From Underdogs to Tigers: The rise and growth of the software industry in Brazil, China, India, Ireland, and Israel. Oxford University Press.

Balakrishnan, P. (2006). Benign neglect or strategic intent? Contested lineage of Indian software industry. Economic and Political Weekly, 3865-3872.

Biao Xiang (2007). Global "Body Shopping": An Indian Labor System in the IT Industry. Princeton University Press.

Gopal, A., & Gao, G. (2009). Certification in the Indian offshore IT services industry. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 11(3), 471-492.

Gao, G., Gopal, A., & Agarwal, R. (2010). Contingent effects of quality signaling: evidence from the Indian offshore IT services industry. Management Science, 56(6), 1012-1029.

Holzweber, M., Mattsson, J., Chadee, D., & Raman, R. (2012). How dynamic capabilities drive performance in the Indian IT industry: the role of information and co-ordination. The Service Industries Journal, 32(4), 531-550.

Lamin, A. (2013). Business groups as information resource: An investigation of business group affiliation in the Indian software services industry. Academy of Management Journal, 56(5), 1487-1509.

Nadeem, S. (2013). Dead ringers: How outsourcing is changing the way Indians understand themselves. Princeton University Press.

Sharma, D. C. (2015). The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution. MIT Press.

Carol Upadhya (2016). Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy. Oxford University Press.

Has the ‘Dream Run’ for Indian IT Ended?. Knowledge@Wharton (2017, April 14). Retrieved from https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/dream-run-indian-ended/