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Anthem Press eBooks, Mar 5, 2012
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2004
... Gil 29, 46, 55, 112, 113, 115, 117n, 119, 128, 130, 273 Aztec Software and Technology Service... more ... Gil 29, 46, 55, 112, 113, 115, 117n, 119, 128, 130, 273 Aztec Software and Technology Services (P) Ltd 229, 232, 236 BAAN 65, 150 back-office 151 data-processing 66 BANCS 2000 1467, 1527 Bagchi, Amiya K. 30 balance of payments, deficit 1 Balasubramanyam, A 53 ...
Series on economic development and growth, Mar 9, 2014
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2009
... change. Finally, in India, Amiya Kumar Bagchi's long-standing critical, historic... more ... change. Finally, in India, Amiya Kumar Bagchi's long-standing critical, historical scholarship on Indian development and Ram Prasad Sengupta's command of theIndian steel industry were inspirational in carrying out this study. Our ...
The Indian journal of labour economics, Mar 7, 2022
Journal of Asian and African Studies, May 13, 2021
Capitalist progress implies the destruction of the old and uncompetitive sectors and the creation... more Capitalist progress implies the destruction of the old and uncompetitive sectors and the creation of new ones in their wake. However, in the Global South the loss of jobs in the older sectors is not necessarily offset by the new forms of employment. The objective of this paper is to critically examine how the vast employment in the Indian handloom sector could be sustained, given the competitive pressures from alternative technologies and products. Rather than allow the sector to be a victim of capitalist progress, this paper on moral economy grounds offers an alternative approach, which is to boost the demand for handloom products through commercial branding but one that is rooted in cultural valorization of artisanal craft. This strategy, complementary to state provisioning of subsidized inputs, comes at the expense of authenticity but is expected to enhance consumption and sustain livelihoods in the handloom sector.
Presented on April 9, 2009 from 11 am to 12 noon in the Neely Room, Georgia Tech Library.Anthony ... more Presented on April 9, 2009 from 11 am to 12 noon in the Neely Room, Georgia Tech Library.Anthony P. D’Costa is a Professor in Indian Studies at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School. Prior to this appointment in 2008 he was with the University of Washington for eighteen years. He has written extensively on the global steel, Indian automobile, and Indian IT industries. He is currently working on the theme of globalization and the international mobility of IT workers examining migration pattern, immigration policies, national innovation systems, and tertiary education in India, Japan, and the US. His books are: The Long March to Capitalism: Embourgeoisment, Internationalization, and Industrial Transformation in India (2005), India in the Global Software Industry (co edited, 2003), The New Economy and Development: ICT Challenges and Opportunities (edited, 2006), and The New Asian Innovation Dynamics: China and India in Perspective (co edited, 2009). He has several fellowships, including the American Institute of Indian Studies, Fulbright-Hays, Korea Foundation, Social Science Research Council, WIDER, and most recently the Abe. He edits "Technology, Globalization and Development" and "India’s Changing Role in the Global Political Economy" book series and serves on the editorial boards of Asian Business and Management and the European Journal of Development Research
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2005
The ability of the Indian economy to accommodate numerous automobile manufacturers rested partly ... more The ability of the Indian economy to accommodate numerous automobile manufacturers rested partly on demand growth. It was also supported by a fundamental restructuring of the industry as a whole, spearheaded by jointventures such as MUL and other collaborations between Indian and multinational firms. To meet growing demand not only did auto firms increase production of vehicles, but in order to successfully compete and quickly capture emerging markets firms had to cultivate a viable auto components supplier industry. This is the second layer of supply-driven market development. Increasing backward integration was made possible by new institutional arrangements at the macro (national) and micro (industrial and firm) levels. These are institutional responses to a changing national environment of market growth induced by embourgeoisment and the challenges of securing that market.
The Journal of Asian Studies, May 1, 1994
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2009
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 1, 2015
The South Korean economic development trajectory has been widely studied and is well understood. ... more The South Korean economic development trajectory has been widely studied and is well understood. From an impoverished war-torn nation, the country has progressed on all fronts, including a ten-fold increase in per capita income over a 40 year period. It stands out internationally when it comes to education and politically it has moved away from authoritarianism to a more spirited democratic system. In short, it seems to have achieved it all. The question then is, what does a country do after it has attained development? This volume examines Korea's strategic engagement with Asia as a response to the limits of the home market. Access to new markets and resources in Asia through exports and foreign investment are critical. Additionally, with Korea's ongoing demographic crisis, its engagement with foreign workers is also inevitable. After-Development Dynamics explores how Korea is responding through regional integration, strategic industrial upgrading of exports, foreign markets and resources, and coping with migrants, including unskilled workers, students, and professionals. The transfer of Korean business and employment practices through investment to other countries and accommodating foreigners is not trouble-free. Further, prosperity imposes demands for increased social welfare, while the workings of contemporary global capitalism introduce new sources of inequality. Sharing that prosperity with small firms, irregular workers, and women becomes critical. This volume presents the key internal challenges facing Korean society and suggests multiple ways to address them as a related response to Korea's after-development prosperity. Contributors to this volume - Yonson Ahn, Frankfurt University John Benson, University of South Australia Seong-Jae Cho, Korea Labor Institute Chul Chung, University of Reading Sun-wook Chung, Sogang University Anthony P. D'Costa, University of Melbourne Christopher M. Dent, University of Leeds Fabian Jintae Froese, University of Gottingen Seong-Kyu Ha, Emeritus Professor, Chung-Ang University Taehyun Jung, Hanyang University Jungbu Kim, International University of Japan Albert Kraeh, University of Gottingen Hyunji Kwon, King's College London Byoung-Hoon Lee, Chung-Ang University Joonkoo Lee, Hanyang University You-il Lee, University of South Australia Sang-Woo Nam, Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management Seong Soo Oh, Hanyang University Hyunmi Park, Beckman Coulter Inc. Jongsoo Park, Gyeongsang National University Ying Zhu, University of South Australia
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2004
Abstract Based on a survey of Indian software firms, this paper analyses whether export dependenc... more Abstract Based on a survey of Indian software firms, this paper analyses whether export dependence locks Indian firms into a dependent non-innovative growth path. The author argues that lock-in effects operate, placing Indian firms into a non-innovative dependent ...
The New Asian Innovation Dynamics, 2009
Asian Business & Management, 2003
Anthem Press eBooks, Mar 5, 2012
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2004
... Gil 29, 46, 55, 112, 113, 115, 117n, 119, 128, 130, 273 Aztec Software and Technology Service... more ... Gil 29, 46, 55, 112, 113, 115, 117n, 119, 128, 130, 273 Aztec Software and Technology Services (P) Ltd 229, 232, 236 BAAN 65, 150 back-office 151 data-processing 66 BANCS 2000 1467, 1527 Bagchi, Amiya K. 30 balance of payments, deficit 1 Balasubramanyam, A 53 ...
Series on economic development and growth, Mar 9, 2014
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2009
... change. Finally, in India, Amiya Kumar Bagchi's long-standing critical, historic... more ... change. Finally, in India, Amiya Kumar Bagchi's long-standing critical, historical scholarship on Indian development and Ram Prasad Sengupta's command of theIndian steel industry were inspirational in carrying out this study. Our ...
The Indian journal of labour economics, Mar 7, 2022
Journal of Asian and African Studies, May 13, 2021
Capitalist progress implies the destruction of the old and uncompetitive sectors and the creation... more Capitalist progress implies the destruction of the old and uncompetitive sectors and the creation of new ones in their wake. However, in the Global South the loss of jobs in the older sectors is not necessarily offset by the new forms of employment. The objective of this paper is to critically examine how the vast employment in the Indian handloom sector could be sustained, given the competitive pressures from alternative technologies and products. Rather than allow the sector to be a victim of capitalist progress, this paper on moral economy grounds offers an alternative approach, which is to boost the demand for handloom products through commercial branding but one that is rooted in cultural valorization of artisanal craft. This strategy, complementary to state provisioning of subsidized inputs, comes at the expense of authenticity but is expected to enhance consumption and sustain livelihoods in the handloom sector.
Presented on April 9, 2009 from 11 am to 12 noon in the Neely Room, Georgia Tech Library.Anthony ... more Presented on April 9, 2009 from 11 am to 12 noon in the Neely Room, Georgia Tech Library.Anthony P. D’Costa is a Professor in Indian Studies at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School. Prior to this appointment in 2008 he was with the University of Washington for eighteen years. He has written extensively on the global steel, Indian automobile, and Indian IT industries. He is currently working on the theme of globalization and the international mobility of IT workers examining migration pattern, immigration policies, national innovation systems, and tertiary education in India, Japan, and the US. His books are: The Long March to Capitalism: Embourgeoisment, Internationalization, and Industrial Transformation in India (2005), India in the Global Software Industry (co edited, 2003), The New Economy and Development: ICT Challenges and Opportunities (edited, 2006), and The New Asian Innovation Dynamics: China and India in Perspective (co edited, 2009). He has several fellowships, including the American Institute of Indian Studies, Fulbright-Hays, Korea Foundation, Social Science Research Council, WIDER, and most recently the Abe. He edits "Technology, Globalization and Development" and "India’s Changing Role in the Global Political Economy" book series and serves on the editorial boards of Asian Business and Management and the European Journal of Development Research
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2005
The ability of the Indian economy to accommodate numerous automobile manufacturers rested partly ... more The ability of the Indian economy to accommodate numerous automobile manufacturers rested partly on demand growth. It was also supported by a fundamental restructuring of the industry as a whole, spearheaded by jointventures such as MUL and other collaborations between Indian and multinational firms. To meet growing demand not only did auto firms increase production of vehicles, but in order to successfully compete and quickly capture emerging markets firms had to cultivate a viable auto components supplier industry. This is the second layer of supply-driven market development. Increasing backward integration was made possible by new institutional arrangements at the macro (national) and micro (industrial and firm) levels. These are institutional responses to a changing national environment of market growth induced by embourgeoisment and the challenges of securing that market.
The Journal of Asian Studies, May 1, 1994
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2009
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 1, 2015
The South Korean economic development trajectory has been widely studied and is well understood. ... more The South Korean economic development trajectory has been widely studied and is well understood. From an impoverished war-torn nation, the country has progressed on all fronts, including a ten-fold increase in per capita income over a 40 year period. It stands out internationally when it comes to education and politically it has moved away from authoritarianism to a more spirited democratic system. In short, it seems to have achieved it all. The question then is, what does a country do after it has attained development? This volume examines Korea's strategic engagement with Asia as a response to the limits of the home market. Access to new markets and resources in Asia through exports and foreign investment are critical. Additionally, with Korea's ongoing demographic crisis, its engagement with foreign workers is also inevitable. After-Development Dynamics explores how Korea is responding through regional integration, strategic industrial upgrading of exports, foreign markets and resources, and coping with migrants, including unskilled workers, students, and professionals. The transfer of Korean business and employment practices through investment to other countries and accommodating foreigners is not trouble-free. Further, prosperity imposes demands for increased social welfare, while the workings of contemporary global capitalism introduce new sources of inequality. Sharing that prosperity with small firms, irregular workers, and women becomes critical. This volume presents the key internal challenges facing Korean society and suggests multiple ways to address them as a related response to Korea's after-development prosperity. Contributors to this volume - Yonson Ahn, Frankfurt University John Benson, University of South Australia Seong-Jae Cho, Korea Labor Institute Chul Chung, University of Reading Sun-wook Chung, Sogang University Anthony P. D'Costa, University of Melbourne Christopher M. Dent, University of Leeds Fabian Jintae Froese, University of Gottingen Seong-Kyu Ha, Emeritus Professor, Chung-Ang University Taehyun Jung, Hanyang University Jungbu Kim, International University of Japan Albert Kraeh, University of Gottingen Hyunji Kwon, King's College London Byoung-Hoon Lee, Chung-Ang University Joonkoo Lee, Hanyang University You-il Lee, University of South Australia Sang-Woo Nam, Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management Seong Soo Oh, Hanyang University Hyunmi Park, Beckman Coulter Inc. Jongsoo Park, Gyeongsang National University Ying Zhu, University of South Australia
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2004
Abstract Based on a survey of Indian software firms, this paper analyses whether export dependenc... more Abstract Based on a survey of Indian software firms, this paper analyses whether export dependence locks Indian firms into a dependent non-innovative growth path. The author argues that lock-in effects operate, placing Indian firms into a non-innovative dependent ...
The New Asian Innovation Dynamics, 2009
Asian Business & Management, 2003
India in the Global Software Industry: Innovation, Firm Strategies and Development, 2004
This research volume is the first book-length study of the Indian software industry in the last s... more This research volume is the first book-length study of the Indian software
industry in the last seven years. The project originated with a suggestion
made by R. Narasimhan, one of the pioneers of computer science in India.
He was a senior member of the team which designed and built TIFRAC, the
first electronic digital computer that was designed, built and operated in
India (at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, in the 1950s).
E. Sridharan, director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the
Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), expanded the idea and developed it into
a fully-fledged proposal. The Institute, set up in New Delhi in 1997, is an
affiliate of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The Center, established in 1992, was created
to undertake studies of contemporary India. Sridharan raised funds from
seven sources and identified participant scholars from several institutions in
India, the United States, Canada and Israel. Anthony P. D’Costa, one of the
invited participants, later came on board as a co-editor of the volume and
played an active editorial role from the end of 2000 onwards.
The project was driven by the need to understand the factors that contributed to or hindered innovation in the Indian IT industry, especially the
software sector. The Indian software industry was then one of the few internationally competitive and large export-oriented industries in India, and
also classified as a high-technology industry. It was observed that the globally competitive Indian software industry, though expanding throughout
the decade at an annual compound rate of 40–50 per cent, was overwhelmingly based on the export of personnel for low value-added, on-site work. It was evident that this business model of ‘bodyshopping’ would not be sustainable in the long run or would consign the Indian industry to low valueadded activities. Indian IT would have to diversify its markets by reducing its dependence on the US market and go beyond ‘bodyshopping’ to innovate new products and services. Strategies would have to include exploiting new IT areas such as the Internet, creating niche products for both the domestic and world markets, integrating software and hardware in embedded IT products, and spinning off technologies developed for the
defence/space complex into commercially successful products. A comprehensive research project on innovation in the Indian IT industry, it was
believed, would be a useful first step towards this.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
The series examines technological change in the larger global context by identifying where the ma... more The series examines technological change in the larger global context by identifying where the markets are, who is specializing in what areas of technology and why, what is the nature of global trade in technologies, and what are some of the social and political challenges posed by such change. Relationships between the OECD and rapidly growing Asian and Latin American economies are brought out by this series. At the same time, the series will also address the issue of why some regions such as Africa and the Middle East lag behind. The question of whether technology is important for development, and how various governments have targeted technology development, whether through education, skill development, or R&D also adds to the diversity of the series. The series includes comparative and regional studies, including single-country case studies of large economies such as India, China, Japan, South Korea, and Brazil. While no single approach or methodology is used exclusively, scholars within the series rely on political economy approaches that are sensitive to institutional and historical realities when analysing specific countries/regions or technologies.
A New India? Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century, 2010
The Long March to Capitalism: Embourgeoisement, Internationalization, and Industrial Transformation in India, 2005
THE GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY: Innovations, Institutions and Industrial Change, 1999
The steel industry is one of many major world industries extnsively restructured in this era of g... more The steel industry is one of many major world industries extnsively restructured in this era of globalization. The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry explains how and why the steel industry has shifted from advanced capitalist countries to late industrializing countries. Drawing upon case studies of the steel industry in the US, Japan , South Korea, Brazil and India, Anthony P.D'Costa examines the relationship between industrial change and institution al responses to technological diffusion. He reveals that governments' and firms' differing responses to innovations lead to an uneven diffusion of technology and industrial reorganization. Moreover, when it becomes clear that existing institutional arrangements no longer serve the industry well, new arrangements are made which allow for innovative behaviour. Often this has created opportunities for technological "leapfrogging" and the emergence of new technologies in unexpected places. The steel industry has con sequently known a new dynamism and the open-ended nature of capitalist competition has been firmly underscored. The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry is a timely addition to the literature of world industries and offers valuable insights into the new dynamics of industrial capitalism in the globalized age. Anthony P.D'Costa is Associate Professor of Comparative International Development at the University of Washington, Tacoma, USA. He has written on industrial restructuring in Asia, Latin America and the US and is currently researching technology leapfrogging in the Indian software industry.
This volume takes a fresh look at the land question in India. Instead of re-engaging in the rich ... more This volume takes a fresh look at the land question in India. Instead of re-engaging in the rich transition debate in which the transformation of agriculture is seen as a necessary historical step to usher in dynamic capitalist (or socialist) development, this collection critically examines the centrality of land in contemporary development discourse in India. Consequently, the focus is on the role of the state in pushing a process of dispossession of peasants through direct expropriation for developmental purposes such as acquisition of land by (local) states for infrastructure development and to support accumulation strategies of private business through industrialization.
