Offshoring Innovation: Tapping the Global Talent Pool and Winning the “War for Talent
China and India are making extraordinary investment in the development of human capital, especially scientists, engineers and other technical workers. Together they graduate 12.5 times as many scientists and engineers as the U.S. graduates. This labor pool favors high-tech companies operating in these countries. Human capital drives the company performance. (Hitt et al., 2001) The larger a firms human capital pool, the more likely it would have superior skills and behaviors that would be valuable, rare and difficult to imitate (Wright et al., 1994). It is the large pool of talent and the expectation that access to this talent will increase company performance that lures companies to China and India. China and India share very ambitious aspirations. China aspires to be a global leader in science and technology by 2050, and India proclaimed itself the worlds knowledge hub of the future at a 2006 national research and development exposition (Teagarden et al., 2009:190). Both countries are collaborating with each other, albeit in a limited way, to learn from each other given their natural complementarities. Yao Weimin. head of Huawei University, suggests that the primary avenue for technology transfer between India and China is software, specifically outsourcing (Teagarden et al., 2009:194).
Mary B.Teagarden Andreas Schotter
Both from Thunderbird School of Global Management
国际会议
2011 Academy for Global Business Advancement(AGBAs)8th World Congress(全球商务发展学会第八届国际会议)
大连
英文
510-514
2011-09-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）