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Research
China - India Initiative for Competitive Adaptation
The major focus of the Chindica project is to collect interview data of management challenges in fast changing global markets and to analyze the opportunities and challenges the great areas of Shanghai in China and in Delhi in India can offer to the Finnish companies. The multinational and multidisciplinary research team is offering their knowledge in strategic management and assistance in understanding and achieving the initiative for competitive adaptation.
More information here.
Nearshoring or Offshoring –comparing ITO and BPO practices and business models between India and Europe /Mikko Ruohonen, TaY 05.09.2007, 26.10.2007
Outsourcing of information technology (ITO) and growingly also business processes and administration (BPO) has increased tremendously during the last 10 years. India is currently the most attractive country for outsourcing in terms of service and costs. However, the East-European countries are getting more visibility and growth, too. For example, maturity of Russian outsourcing markets has grown which has enabled “nearshoring” Labour costs are not anymore the only factor for decision-making, service levels, competencies and community-based activities, cultural fit and administrative environment are important, too. Three business models are to be explicated i.e. network, middle-man and development center strategies. Network strategy requires development of value network to face growing and varying needs of customers. In middle-man model companies are culturally nearer to customer and can also use the cost-effective sourcing. The third model is to set up a development center.
Objectives of the study are to i) investigate Indian ICT service markets and main playes ii) examine different business models and competitive factors and iii) compare those to western (European) equivalents. A special focus is put on Finnish software and services markets.
The research work will be executed in collaboration with Management Development Institute ( MDI) A research period in India will be done for company visits, field work and interviews in major Indian ICT service business hubs. It is also planned to create a research program agenda for a larger IndoEuropean research on ICT services markets.
More information: professor Mikko Ruohonen, mr(at)cs.uta.fi
Urban Governance in East Asia - Co-operation project
Academics in the Departments of Regional Studies and of Economics and Accounting of the University of Tampere (UTA) started a project in the early 2000s in which urban development and governance in East Asian countries are studied. In the beginning the project concentrated on Japan but soon also South Korea and China were included in the project.
Mission of the project
To strengthen the co-operation between political and administrative scientists in Finland and East Asia with a special emphasis on research and teaching on the development and governance of cities and technopoles.
Contact persons
· Dr. Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Department of Regional Studies, UTA
ari-veikko.anttiroiko@uta.fi
· Dr. Pekka Valkama, Department of Economics and Accounting, UTA
pekka.valkama@uta.fi
Visited universities
Daito Bunka University (Tokyo), Osaka City University (Osaka), Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo), Waseda University (Tokyo), Yonsei University (Seoul), Sookmyung Women’s University (Seoul), Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul), Mokwon University (Daejeon), Hanyang University (Seoul), Seoul National University (Seoul), KAIST (Seoul), Renmin University of China (Beijing), Tsinghua University (Beijing). |
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