- Title
- Theorising human capital formation for innovation in India’s global information technology sector
- Creator
- Malik, Ashish; Pereira, Vijay
- Relation
- Human Capital and Innovation p. 221-249
- Relation
- Palgrave Studies in Global Human Capital Management
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56561-7_9
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Using a hypothetic-deductive approach, this chapter contributes by bringing together two diverse and important streams of literatures on human capital formation and innovation. In doing so, we develop a theoretical model for understanding the interactions and relationships between various units of a theory in human capital formation for innovation. Although there is an emerging body of research that links globalisation and increased need for investment in human capital and training, there is little theoretical basis that exists for understanding how such skill formation impacts innovation in the context of innovating firms in high-technology sectors such as that of the information technology (IT) industry. Further, although studies have been undertaken to model human capital formation in the context of developing countries with a focus on both an inward- and outward-looking perspective customer, there exists a limited understanding of how human capital impacts innovation in high-technology service firms. Using Dubin’s (Theory building. New Free Press, 1978) theory-building approach and a detailed literature review, this chapter proposes a model for understanding the theoretical basis of skill formation at an enterprise level and innovation in India’s high-technology and born-global IT industry.
- Subject
- enterprise training; innovation; globalisation; theory-building; information technology sector
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327485
- Identifier
- uon:25678
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781137565600
- Language
- eng
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