| Chapter 1: | Introduction |
government regarding their IT policies; published studies and scholarly research done on the IT industry in India and other countries; statistical data and reports published by the government and various government agencies, industry associations, and firms; and reports and analyses published by multinational private consulting firms, newspapers, magazines, and so forth.
Plan of the Book
The book is structured as follows. After the first introductory chapter, the second chapter presents a conceptual framework and a comprehensive critique of the current literature and discusses how the current literature is unable to fully explain the role of regional governments in the development of this industry in India. This chapter also presents a brief description of the three cases and the main arguments that I examine in this research. Chapter 3 discusses the evolution of the software industry in India and examines how the policies of the central government influenced its development. Chapter 4 presents a simple multivariate time-series regression model that analyzes the factors associated with regional variation in the growth of software exports in the country since the start of the reforms. Chapters 5 to 7 present the detailed empirical case studies of the three states examined here. These case studies closely examine the role of the state governments in the evolution of the software industry in their respective states and how each government affected the type and structure of the industry that finally evolved in each state. They also explain why the existing analytical and theoretical frameworks within the literature are unable to fully explain the reasons for the success of these states. Chapter 8 synthesizes the research