Foreign Ownership, Technological Intensities and Economic Performance of Automotive Parts Firms in India

Rajah Rasiah and Ashish Kumar

Asia Pacific Business Review, 2008, vol. 14, issue 1, 85-102

Abstract: This contribution examines differences in technological intensities between foreign and local automotive parts firms in India. Foreign firms enjoyed higher labour productivity, wages, and export, technological and skills intensities than local firms. The econometric results showed a strong relationship between labour productivity and technological intensity. The technological intensity variable (including its components of human resource, process technology and R&D) was also strongly and positively correlated with skills intensity. Foreign ownership was only statistically significant and positive in the human resources regressions. Local firms also showed statistically significant levels of technological intensity (especially in process technology) when competing in export markets, suggesting that foreign firms may offer a competitive and complementary presence to spur local firms' development.

Date: 2008
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