Studying China’s IT Services Industry: Generalizations, Particularities, and the Competitive Outlook
Abstract
China’s IT Services industry has grown rapidly in the last decade. Chinese government has made it a priority to invest in the improvement of the capabilities of Chinese vendors, which helped vendors to expand and grow in local and global markets. Despite the fact that China is the second largest industrial economy, IS researchers are only now starting to pay serious attention to China’s IT Services industry. This panel is aimed at stimulating research in this area by debating two approaches: one approach that focuses on unique opportunities offered by this setting for developing insights generalizable to other settings and a second approach focused on generating theories that focus on the specifics of the Chinese context. Academic panelists, all of whom have conducted studies of China’s IT Services, will argue these different positions. They will be joined by an industry leader from IT services industry in China, who would talk about the future of the industry.
Recommended Citation
Levina, Natalia; Gallivan, Michael; Su, Ning; Pan, Shan Ling; Hsu, Jerry; and Mao, Ji-Ye, "Studying China’s IT Services Industry: Generalizations, Particularities, and the Competitive Outlook" (2011). ICIS 2011 Proceedings. 6.
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Studying China’s IT Services Industry: Generalizations, Particularities, and the Competitive Outlook
China’s IT Services industry has grown rapidly in the last decade. Chinese government has made it a priority to invest in the improvement of the capabilities of Chinese vendors, which helped vendors to expand and grow in local and global markets. Despite the fact that China is the second largest industrial economy, IS researchers are only now starting to pay serious attention to China’s IT Services industry. This panel is aimed at stimulating research in this area by debating two approaches: one approach that focuses on unique opportunities offered by this setting for developing insights generalizable to other settings and a second approach focused on generating theories that focus on the specifics of the Chinese context. Academic panelists, all of whom have conducted studies of China’s IT Services, will argue these different positions. They will be joined by an industry leader from IT services industry in China, who would talk about the future of the industry.