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the benefits of service provision by remote delivery

Service provision by remote delivery also directly helped firms increase productivity and move up the value chain. [...] body-shopping had spawned much employee poaching by the TNC clients of Indian software firms. [...] With body-shopping reduced, so too was poaching. The potential of firms to upg…

—p.63 Dot.compradors: Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry Manna from Heaven: Satellites, Optic Fibres and the Export Thrust, 1986-2000 (59) by Jyoti Saraswati
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the Minicomputer Policy and the Indian hardware industry

The licensing system engendered by the Minicomputer Policy was the major policy shift [...] the DoE was essentially offering licenses to any Indian firm applying to enter the computer hardware industry. [...]

This impacted directly, rapidly and negatively on the competitive structure of the Indi…

—p.56 Catalytic Corruption: The Domestic Software Services Boom, 1978-1986 (49) by Jyoti Saraswati
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Indira Gandhi and the Emergency (1975-1977)

[...] While explanations for the Emergency differ - with the government claiming it was a response to national security threats and opponents claiming it had much more to do with Indira Gandhi's own thirst for power - all are agreed it had nothing to do with the Business Houses. However, while the …

—p.50 Catalytic Corruption: The Domestic Software Services Boom, 1978-1986 (49) by Jyoti Saraswati
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the 1972 Software Export Scheme

And so the 1972 Software Export Scheme was born. The scheme set out to harness the software programming talent within India's management consultancies. While providing software services was by no means the chief source of income for these consultancies, they would often have on their books a number…

—p.43 IT Started with a War (35) by Jyoti Saraswati
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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 'abuse' of a bureaucratic loophole had allowed it to exert a stranglehold on the market while importing outdated, second-hand and overpriced computers for resale in India.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 IT Started with a War (35) by Jyoti Saraswati