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Software Product Development in India: Lessons from Six Cases

In: India in the Global Software Industry

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  • Rishikesha T. Krishnan
  • Ganesh N. Prabhu

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While the software industry is considered a highly successful economic growth engine in India (NASSCOM, 2002a), its rapid growth in recent years has been achieved by firms primarily providing manpower-intensive customized software development and maintenance services to foreign clients (Arora et al., 2001). While this business model has enabled Indian software companies to transit smoothly from software ‘body-shopping’ services to offshore software development in India, it has also made them vulnerable to the business cycles in client countries. The software services model is manpower intensive, and growth is achieved only by a proportionate increase in the number of software engineers employed. This results in large organizations that become increasingly difficult to coordinate and control. The competitive advantages of this business model are narrow (Arora, Gambardella and Torrisi, 2001) and may over time be eroded by lower cost countries like China.

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  • Rishikesha T. Krishnan & Ganesh N. Prabhu, 2004. "Software Product Development in India: Lessons from Six Cases," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anthony P. D’Costa & E. Sridharan (ed.), India in the Global Software Industry, chapter 6, pages 139-163, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-4384-2_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403943842_6
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    1. Agrawal, Narendra M. & Khatri, Naresh & Srinivasan, R., 2012. "Managing growth: Human resource management challenges facing the Indian software industry," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 47(2), pages 159-166.
    2. Debasisha Mishra & M. Ramkumar, 2022. "Study of project type and team structure in the Indian software outsourcing industry," OPSEARCH, Springer;Operational Research Society of India, vol. 59(1), pages 324-349, March.

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