Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and their Interplay

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 dome...

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Main Authors: TSCHANG, Feichin, Ted, Niosi, J.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-24522010-09-23T06:24:04Z Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and their Interplay TSCHANG, Feichin, Ted Niosi, J. 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. 2008-09-05T07:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1453 Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Asian Studies International Business Software Engineering Strategic Management Policy
institution Singapore Management University
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Singapore
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topic Asian Studies
International Business
Software Engineering
Strategic Management Policy
spellingShingle Asian Studies
International Business
Software Engineering
Strategic Management Policy
TSCHANG, Feichin, Ted
Niosi, J.
Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and their Interplay
description 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.
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author TSCHANG, Feichin, Ted
Niosi, J.
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Niosi, J.
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title Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and their Interplay
title_short Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and their Interplay
title_full Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and their Interplay
title_fullStr Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and their Interplay
title_full_unstemmed Comparing Chinese and the Indian Software MNCs: Domestic and Export Market Strategies and their Interplay
title_sort comparing chinese and the indian software mncs: domestic and export market strategies and their interplay
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2008
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1453
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