Browsing Working Papers by Author "Basant, Rakesh"
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Impact of affirmative action in higher education for the other backward classes in India
Basant, Rakesh; Sen, Gitanjali (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-07-18)This paper measures the impact of quota-based affirmative action in higher education (HE) in India for Other Backward Classes (OBC), implemented from 2008. Since the immediate impact would be felt by OBCs who were eligible ... -
Impact of mergers and acquisitions on innovation: evidence from a panel of Indian pharmaceutical firms
Basant, Rakesh; Jaiswal, Neha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-01-01)Based on the literature, the paper identifies processes that get initiated post an M&A event and affect the acquiring firm’s innovation efforts. We apply panel fixed effects estimation techniques to analyze the individual ... -
Intellectual property and innovation changing perspectives in the Indian IT industry
Basant, Rakesh (2009-12-12)Large IT firms and firms in high-end niche areas are proactively seeking IP based growth strategies. While they typically seek IP protection inn western nations and not so much in India, this has led them to perceive ... -
Intellectual Property Protection in India and Implications for Health Innovation: Emerging Perspectives
Basant, Rakesh; Srinivasan, Shuchi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)With the advent of TRIPS, the IP regimes have changed in most WTO member countries. India also came up with its own version of TRIPS compatible IP regime which has been hailed by some as a „model‟ regime for developing ... -
Inter-firm linkages in the IT industry in India: a case study of Telecom technologies
Basant, Rakesh; Chandra, Pankaj (2010-01-18)In this paper we focus on the telecom segment of the IT sector with an objective to understand the nature and extent of inter-firm linkages in the industry, the role these linkages play in developing technological capabilities ... -
International Competitive Strategy Choices: Comparing Firms in China and India
Lv, Ping; Plechero, Monica; Basant, Rakesh; Liu, Xie-Lin (2013-11-20)The international business literature has yet to adequately explore international competitive strategy choices made by firms in developing countries. This study aims to address this gap by investigating the types of ... -
Labour market deepening in the Indian information technology industry: an exploratory analysis
Basant, Rakesh; Rani, Uma (2009-12-12)The analysis suggests that deepening is actually taking place but the pace but pace can probably be enhanced. Transition to the off-shore model, growth of the ITES sector, competition and infrastructure led movement of IT ... -
Linking Technical Education to Business Growth:
Basant, Rakesh; Chandra, Pankaj (2009-08-22)Education has been recognized as the most important source of competitive advantage for a nation. It is the key determinant of firm level productivity which in turn drives business growth and profitability. Technical ... -
Linking telecome technologies: complementarities, capabilities and policies
Basant, Rakesh; Chandra, Pankaj (2010-04-03)This paper is a preliminary exploration to develop a methodology for assessing the technological capabilities and needs of the telecommunications sector in India. It makes a case for strategic policy interventions to build ... -
Measuring Institutional Relatedness
Dhandapani, Karthik; Basant, Rakesh (2011-05-26)Firms in most emerging economies are engaged in seemingly unrelated activities. This is particularly observed in the case of business groups which dominate the landscape of these economies. Initially, diversification in ... -
Parental Education as a Criterion for Affirmative Action in Higher Education:A Preliminary Analysis
Basant, Rakesh; Sen, Gitanjali (2013-11-19)Affirmative action, especially in the form of reservation policies, to address the issues of inclusion and equity has been in place in India for a long time. Through these policies higher participation of the marginalized ... -
Role of Educational and R&D Institutions in City Clusters: An Exploratory Study of Bangalore and Pune Regions in India
Basant, Rakesh; Chandra, Pankaj (2009-07-24)his paper explores the role played by academic institutions in Bangalore and Pune cities of India. It shows that there exists a large variety of linkages between industry and academia in the two Indian cities; a hierarchy ... -
Small and Medium Enterprise in India Today – Overcoming Policy Constraints to Achieving Rapid Growth in a Globalising Economy
Morris, Sebastian; Basant, Rakesh (2009-08-08)Sustained very high rate of growth (above 8% in the context today in India) would be able to achieve (since a labour productivity growth of 4 to 4.5 % is to be factored in) a labour absorption rate of 3.5 to 4% which is ... -
Strategic partnering in telecom software: northern telecom technology network in India
Basant, Rakesh; Chandra, Pankaj; Mytelka, Lynn K. (2009-12-14)Inter-firm linkages are becoming strategically important for transfer and development of technological capabilities. In this paper, we present how one such network of partnership between a MNC and some Indian software firms ... -
Strategic paths and performance of born globals: a study of Indian IT firms
Karthik, D.; Upadhyayula, Rajesh; Basant, Rakesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Extant literature suggests that post entry internationalization strategies and performance implications of born globals is an under-researched area. In this paper, we examine the internationalization strategies of born ... -
Technology strategies of large enterprises in Indian industry: some explorations
Basant, Rakesh (2010-04-06)A firmzs technology strategy is influenced by the ytechnology regimez in which it operates. The regime is broadly defined by a combination of variables capturing industrial structure, nature of technical knowledge and the ... -
Technology strategy of Indian firms: Searching for the role of complementary assets and technology supply chains
Basant, Rakesh; Chandra, Pankaj (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)As a consequence of economic reforms, the Indian manufacturing sector faces a variety of technology related challenges. It not only has to quickly develop world-class manufacturing capabilities but also gear up to develop ... -
Trade regimes and productivity: exploring the impact of tariff policy on firm level technology strategies
Basant, Rakesh; Majumdar, Saumen (2010-04-03)The economic reforms initiated in 1991 were broadly based on the view that the strategy of state dominated industrialisation with high protective barriers was either a mistake of has outlived its usefulness. And this ... -
Trade related Intellectual Property Right and Seed Industry in India: a review of issues and evidence
Basant, Rakesh (2010-04-05)Any analysis of the Intellectual Property Rights relating to the seed industry in India needs to take congnizance of three inter-related issues: (a) that the current debate on IPRs is part of a larger debate on issues ... -
Trends in strategies and performance of the indian corporate sector what has changed in two decades of economic reforms?
Basant, Rakesh; Mishra, Pulak (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-04)In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian economy in general and corporate sector in particular, this paper documents strategies followed by firms in this period and ...