Going Dutch, Remaining Indian: The Work Experiences of IT Expatriates

Meaningfulness and Impact of Academic Research: Bringing the Global South to the Forefront

“…Noronha and Magala’s (2017) inquiry shows how sole reliance on dimensional frameworks limits the meaningfulness and impact of research for people of the Global South. For instance, Indian Information Technology (IT) organizations operating in the Netherlands continue to harbor and exemplify the typical features of Indian workplaces such as high power distance, politicized career progression paths, and lack of transparency, reflecting a feudalistic mindset.…”

“…Indeed, capturing the sociocultural complexities of a national culture further aids appreciation of the social identities (such as gender, class, caste, race, religion, age, disability, and sexual orientation) and related intersectionalities of the population, especially the workforce. Noronha and Magala's (2017) inquiry shows how sole reliance on dimensional frameworks limits the meaningfulness and impact of research for people of the Global South. For instance, Indian Information Technology (IT) organizations operating in the Netherlands continue to harbor and exemplify the typical features of Indian workplaces such as high power distance, politicized career progression paths, and lack of transparency, reflecting a feudalistic mindset.…”

Freelancing globally: Upworkers in China and India, neo-liberalisation and the new international putting-out system of labour (NIPL)

“…This is an emerging trend to note, given that both India and China are considered to be collectivist societies (Hofstede 1980); the increase in engaging with platform work, therefore, speaks to changes in the national ethos arising due to global influences in thought processes as well as economic imperatives, particularly in the era after the global economic crisis of the late 2000s (D'Cruz Hansen & Svarverud 2010;Schmalz & Ebenau 2012). Clearly, cultural differences, far from being fixed and static, are in fact dynamic, fluid and situationally constructed (Noronha & Magala 2017). Freelancers' participation in global capital is conditioned by their compliance with the mechanisms and stipulations centralised through the platform (resembling the panopticon; Ouellet 2010).…”