This paper examines the variables affecting innovation processes performance through the analysis of 315 papers and books in management, engineering, software development, and design and architecture. Through an integrative literature review, and inductive research process, we cluster research...

A growing number of communities across the United States are adopting policies to promote advanced telecommunication services, including broadband access. This paper offers a taxonomy for classifying these local government initiatives and provides preliminary empirical results for a sample of...

Municipal electric utilities (MEUs) are increasingly expanding into telecommunications services. Such entry is interesting in several respects. First, MEUs marry two potential pathways for the growth of telecommunications access infrastructure and services: public ownership of last-mile...

We examine privacy-enhancing technologies based on the consistency of the business plans, technology, stated objectives, and the concept of privacy as embedded in the technologies. Three distinct trust models result from the three distinct concepts of privacy: a right of autonomy, a right to...

This paper analyzes the causes of illegal copying and its effects in the software market across 66countries. By studying the aggregated and joint effects of different variables, the analysis shows thatsupply constraints in the software market, shortage of after-sale support, and characteristics...

Municipal electric utilities (MEUs) are increasingly expanding into telecommunications services. Such entry is interesting in several respects. First, MEUs marry two potential pathways for the growth of telecommunications access infrastructure and services: public ownership of last-mile...