As a community-based innovation, Open Source Software (OSS) development intrigues researchers and practitioners, especially on why OSS projects succeed with light coordination and control mechanisms. In the view that the viability and sustainability of an OSS project rely on individuals’...

When we think of colas, Coca-Cola first comes to mind. Products such as Cola-Cola, Tide laundry detergent, and Chapstick lip balm are the prototypical products in their respective categories. For more than three decades, research in consumer psychology has accumulated evidence on how...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Research Background -- 3 Research Method -- 4 Results of the World-Wide Survey -- 5 Interpretation of the Empirical Results -- 6 Limitations of the Investigation -- 7 Conclusions --...

If e-business contracts are to be widely used, they need to be supported by the IT infrastructure of the organizations concerned. This implies that the interactions between systems in different organizations must be guided by the contract and there must be sufficiently strong checks and balances...

A number of recent studies have reported the phenomenon of “software aging”, characterized by progressive performance degradation and/or an increased occurrence rate of hang/crash failures of a software system due to the exhaustion of operating system resources or the accumulation of errors....

With software development (SD) constituting one of the largest portions of corporate capital expenditures, an organization's capability to manage the SD process is a key success factor. Additionally, SD is increasingly an important driver of successful technology-based products as evidenced by...

Dass die Zusammenarbeit in Projektteams mit innovativen Aufgabenstellungen erfolgswirksam ist, wurde in bisherigen konzeptuellen und empirischen Arbeiten klar herausgearbeitet. Die selbständige Aufgabenerfüllung durch die einzelnen Teammitglieder als bedeutsamer Einflussfaktor auf den Erfolg...