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the Indian government and IBM's subsidiary

[...] Of the various TNCs operating in India, IBM was singled out [...] 'abuse' of a bureaucratic loophole had allowed it to exert a stranglehold on the market while importing outdated, second-hand and overpriced computers for resale in India. Morever, its operations were seen as leading to a net e…

—p.42 Dot.compradors: Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry IT Started with a War (35) by Jyoti Saraswati
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indirect Western control over India

[...] political sovereignty was handed over to Indians in August 1947. However, the capability of the Indian government to implement domestic policies according to its own will and needs was heavily circumscribed [...] indirect Western rule was maintained [...]

Indirect control was enforced by…

—p.36 IT Started with a War (35) by Jyoti Saraswati
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an innate aptitude among Indians for software programming

[...] those claiming that Indians have a special aptitude for mathematics and software programming tend to focus on the educational performance of Indian students in multi-ethnic societies. [...]

[...] To understand better the performance of students of Indian origin in the USA and the UK, it is…

—p.20 The Development of the Software Industry in India: Existing Explanations and their Shortcomings (18) by Jyoti Saraswati
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the integrated services model

A special trend has bee the evolution of the integrated services model from the late-1990s onward, whereby software services firms provided services across tiers, from highest-end IT consulting to low-end IT outsourcing. The integrated services model was pioneered by the most successful Indian sof…

—p.15 The Global Software Services Industry: An Overview (9) by Jyoti Saraswati
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the Global Giants

Four firms dominate IT consultancy: IBM, Accenture, EDS and Cap Gemini. They are often referred to as the 'Global Giants' [...] have high-end IT consulting capabilities but also offer various other services. Of the four, IBM is by far the largest, dwarfing the other three firms. For example, IBM's …

—p.12 The Global Software Services Industry: An Overview (9) by Jyoti Saraswati