Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
He has served as Director of the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics, Co-Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, Director of the South Asian Studies Initiative, and Special Advisor to the Chancellor. He organized one of the first major US conferences on Indian economic reform. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and his BSc and MSc from the London School of Economics, where he was awarded the Allyn Young Prize, Gonner Prize and Ely Devons Prize. His current research topics include information technology and development, electronic commerce, business strategy, political economy, federalism, economic growth and the Indian economy. He has authored over 100 research papers and co-authored three books: Joint Ventures, International Investment and Technology Transfer; The Political Economy of Federalism in India; and Waiting to Connect: India IT Revolution Bypasses the Domestic Industry. He has also served as an advisor for several startups and knowledge services firms in Silicon Valley and in India.
Impacts of information technology use on Indian firms
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Orcan Cortuk
We use survey data collected for about 800 Indian firms across six cities to examine the impact of information technology investments on firm revenues and profits. We find that the impacts are generally positive, and vary across locations and types of firms. The nature of the investments also has an effect in some cases. The results of the analysis support the conclusions of earlier work done by two of the authors with a larger data set of manufacturing firms, which had less specific information on the nature of IT investments
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