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Title: Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry

Type Dataset Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther (2007): Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/QUL81Y

Authors: Banerjee, Abhijit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Banerjee, Abhijit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Abhijit Banerjee ; Esther Duflo ; Jameel Poverty Action Lab ;

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Summary

This paper examines evidence of the role that reputation plays in determining contractual outcomes. We conduct an empirical analysis of the Indian customized software industry, using a data set we collected containing detailed information on 230 projects carried out by 125 software firms. We propose a model ofthe industry where reputation determines contractual outcomes. The evidence supports the view that reputation matters. Ex ante contracts, as well as the outcome after ex post renegotiation, vary with firms' characteristics plausibly associated with reputation. This holds after controlling for project, client, and firm characteristics.

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  • DOI: 10.7910/DVN/QUL81Y

Subjects

  • Social Sciences, India, software industry, contractual outcomes, reputation, The MacArthur Network on Inequality, JPAL
  • Economic theory and demography: Economic theory, Demography

Dates

  • Publication date: 2007
  • Issued: 2006
  • Created: 2000
  • Submitted: 2004
  • Updated: March 31, 2020
  • Collected: November 15, 1997 to February 15, 1998

Notes

Datacite resource type: Firm, project, client, and contract information Methods: NA Methods: NA Methods: NA SeriesInformation: None Other: Subject: Study Level Error Note, Notes: NA; Subject: STANDARD DEPOSIT TERMS 1.0 Type: DATAPASS:TERMS:STANDARD:1.0 Notes: This study was deposited under the of the Data-PASS standard deposit terms. A copy of the usage agreement is included in the file section of this study.;

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