U.S. Professors Rush to India to Study Rush of U.S. Jobs There
The New York Times (full-text requires registration)
By Saritha Rai
March 17, 2004
Bangalore, India, March 16--India's almost magnetic ability to bring in jobs has incited more than just fiery rhetoric from labor unions and accusations from John Kerry that American bosses are behaving like Benedict Arnold by sending precious jobs overseas.
It is also attracting scholars. Lots of them....
Researchers at schools like the Kellogg School of Management, the UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY and the Columbia Business School are studying
India's intellectual base, and the trials that software services companies
face as they compete globally....
Few have tracked outsourcing more closely than ANNALEE SAXENIAN, A PROFESSOR
AT BERKELEY and one of the trend's early researchers. "The speed with which
this phenomenon has taken off has amazed me," said Professor Saxenian.
By contrast with today, she said that on her first visit to India in 1997,
American companies were highly skeptical of the idea of doing business there....
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