TY - BOOK AU - Hashim, S.R., ed. AU - Siddharthan, N.S., ed. TI - High-tech industries, employment and global competitiveness SN - 9780415460903 U1 - 337.54051 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Globalization--Economic aspects KW - High technology industries--Employees--Supply and demand N1 - 1. Introduction / S.R. Hashim and N.S. Siddharthan -- Sect. 1. Global Competitiveness -- 2. Software and Hardware Firms in India and China: How they Differ / Stanley Nollen and N.S. Siddharthan -- 3. Small Firms in Indian Software Clusters: Building Global Competitiveness / Aya Okada -- 4. Technology Acquisition and Competitiveness: Evidence from the Indian IT Industry / K. Narayan -- 5. China's Pharmaceutical Industry: Multinational Enterprises and Regional Agglomeration / Haiyan Zhang and Daniel Van Den Bulcke -- 6. An Analysis of Sourcing and Sales Strategies of Foreign Subsidiaries in the South of China Filip De Beule, Daniel Van Den Bulcke and / Luodan Xu -- 7. Small Islands, New Technologies and Globalisation: A Case of ICT Adoption by SMEs in Mauritius Kaushalesh Lal -- Sect. 2. Employment -- 8. MNEs, Product Differentiation, Skills and Employment: Lessons from the Indian Experience / B.L. Pandit and N.S. Siddharthan -- 9. Imported Technology and Employment: Evidence from Panel Data on Indian Manufacturing Firms / Atsushi Kato and Arup Mitra -- 10. Employment Profile of the ICT Sector in India / Sandip Sarkar and Balwant Singh Mehta -- Sect. 3. Science and Technology -- A Perspective -- 11. Scientific Developments: A Vision / G. Baskaran -- 12. Investing in a Technology-rich Future / P.V. Indiresan ER -