Managing growth: Human resource management challenges facing the Indian software industry

Journal of World Business

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-166

  Agrawal, Narendra M ^a   Khatri, Naresh ^b   Srinivasan, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Globally distributed teams; Human resource management practices; Indian software industry; IT professionals; Organizational growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857239341     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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