There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open...

The DevOps model ensures that the organization's growth and processes are work together. As far as security is concerned, DevOps security tools are significant in relaying information on external attackers which can be traced back to development, allowing for quicker elimination of potential...

This article describes qregsel, a Stata module to implement a copula-based sample selection correction for quantile regression recently proposed by Arellano and Bonhomme (2017, Econometrica 85(1): 1-28). The command allows the user to model selection in quantile regressions using either a...

Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other developers will reciprocate. Open source incentives are distinct from earlier uses of intellectual property, leading to different types of inefficiencies and different biases in...

The main purpose of the present study is to explore the relationship between gender of the students and their attitudes towards software piracy. Research data were obtained by surveying the undergraduate students of the Department of Business Administration at a public university in Turkey....

In March 2010, Microsoft started displaying a choice screen to its users whose default web browser was Internet Explorer (IE). This screen included the 12 most widely-used web browsers that run on Windows and was imposed as a consequence of an antitrust investigation in which the European...

The agglomeration of rules and regulations over time has produced a body of legal code that no single individual can fully comprehend. This complexity produces inefficiencies, makes the processes of understanding and changing the law difficult, and frustrates the fundamental principle that the...

The literature has been inconclusive regarding which factors determine knowledge worker productivity. To remedy that gap, this paper presented an online experiment to measure the productivity of software programmers, as a representative of knowledge workers, in a particular situation when a more...

The achievement of sustainable competitive advantage has been a major goal of every industry nowadays. In the rapidly growing software industry, the increasing number of competitors, availability of numerous software development tools and process with varied management technique has made the...