Globalization of Indian Industries: Productivity, Exports and Investment - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 9811007047 ISBN 13: 9789811007040

Casa editrice: Springer, 2015

Riassunto

This book focuses on Indianmanufacturing industries and analyses the impact of inward foreign directinvestment on the domestic sector on the one hand, and exports and outwardforeign direct investment by Indian companies on the other. Although theemphasis is mostly general, specific industries, such as the automotiveindustry or the wind energy sector are also explored. The differences between lowand high technology industries are also addressed.

In terms of theoretical settingand analysis, the book draws both from international business and industrial organizationliterature. The various characteristics of Indian industries, such as thedeterminants and impacts of R&D, the effects of spillovers, the drivers ofproductivity and technical efficiency are thoroughly researched employingappropriate quantitative methodologies that are relevant to the specific domainand topic under investigation.  The book also focuses on the bearing ofpolicy on promoting manufacturing industries in India and is therefore ofinterest to researchers, industrialists and policy makers alike.

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Filip De Beule is professor ofinternational business at the Faculty of Economics and Business, KU LeuvenUniversity, Antwerpen, Belgium. He isboard member of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) where heserves as national representative for Belgium. He is also academic secretaryfor the Western European Chapter of the Academy of International Business(AIB). Filip De Beule focuses his research on internationalization, innovation,multinational companies and emerging economies. He is senior fellow at the LeuvenCentre for Global Governance Studies and research fellow at the LICOS Centrefor Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven University. His researchhas been published in the Journal of International Management, EuropeanManagement Journal, Transnational Corporations Journal and InternationalBusiness Review among others.

K. Narayanan obtainedhis PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi,India, and carried out Post-doctoral research at Institute of Advanced StudiesUnited Nations University, Tokyo, Japan during 2000-01. For the researchstudies in India, he was a recipient of the ICSSR fellowship at the Instituteof Economic Growth. His research interests span the areas of industrialeconomics, international business, Socio-economic empowerment through ICT,Environmental Economics, Economic impacts of Climate Change and DevelopmentEconomics.  He has a number of publications in the field of industrialcompetitiveness, technology transfer, ICT, international trade andsocio-economic impacts of Climate Change. The research journals in which he haspublished include Research Policy, Journal of Regional Studies, Technovation,Oxford Development Studies, International Journal of Energy Economics andPolicy, and Economic and Political Weekly. Two of his recent publicationsincludes edited books on (i) Indian and Chinese Enterprises: Global Trade,Technology, and Investment Regimes, and (ii) Human Capital and Development: TheIndian Experience [both of them were jointly edited with N.S. Siddharthan]published by Routledge & Springer, respectively. He also guest edited aSpecial Issue of the IASSI Quarterly on the theme “Human Capital andDevelopment”, a Special Issue of the Sage published international journal, Science,Technology and Society on the theme “Agglomeration, technology clusters andnetworks”. He is actively engaged in a web based research group, Forum forGlobal Knowledge Sharing, which interfaces Scientists, Technologists andEconomists. Dr. Narayanan is currently Institute Chair Professor at theDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of TechnologyBombay, Mumbai, India.

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• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9811007047
• ISBN 13: 9789811007040
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Redattore: De Beule Filip, Narayanan K.