The Next Wave of Globalization: Relocating Service Provision to India

World Development

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 772-791

  Dossani, Rafiq ^a   Kenney, Martin ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; India; offshoring; outsourcing; services

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EXPORT; GLOBALIZATION; MARKET SYSTEM; SERVICE PROVISION; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34247123147     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.09.014     Document Type: Article

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