124 Case Studies in Business Ethics and Corporate Governance
COMPANY BACKGROUND
Satyam Computer Services was founded as an information technology services company which pro-
vided numerous IT services such as software development, application integration, consulting and en-
terprise business solutions, engineering design support, e-commerce and consulting. It was incorporated
as a private limited company in 1987 by Ramalinga Raju along with his brother-in-law Rama Raju, with
two offi ces in Andhra Pradesh and one in Bangalore. The company got converted into a public limited
company in August 1991 and went for an IPO issue in 1992, which got oversubscribed by 17 times.
The money raised from this IPO went into setting up infrastructural and technological ...