Resource Strategy and Signals to Resources Market in Indian Software

Parthasarathi Banerjee
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Parthasarathi Banerjee: NISTADS (National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies), New Delhi

Global Business Review, 2003, vol. 4, issue 1, 115-129

Abstract: Resource dependence of strategies of firms in software have mostly been studied from an internal perspective. However, because large manpower turnover takes place across most firms and because quality of resources is uncertain, firms value the functioning of the market of software personnel. Signals based on which transactions in such a market take place appear through advertisements for jobs. This paper has studied 1,615 advertisements for software jobs in India and abroad. It is observed that signals that appear in advertisements are vague. It appears that firms benefit by concealing from competitors information about its resources, although vagueness of information raises fixed cost.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1177/097215090300400108

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