We examine the question of which services are tradable within a concrete setting: the outsourcing of IT services across a broad cross-section of establishments in the US. If markets for IT services are local, then we should expect increases in local supply should increase the likelihood of...

We examine the interrelationships between firms' efforts to leverage different types of intellectual property (IP) rights. While prior research has tended to view different forms of intellectual property as substitutes, we argue that they can also be viewed as complements. We motivate this...

In his work on memetics Daniel Dennett does a poor job of negotiating the territory between philosophy and science. The analytic tools he has as a philosopher aren't of much use in building accounts of the psychological and social mechanisms that underlie cultural processes. The only tool...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of perceived of enjoyment, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and computer anxiety toward intention to reuse Accurate™ accounting software. The design of this research is causal explanatory research. Data was collected using a...

Regarding to the potential capabilities of accounting information systems (AIS) and software packages as computer AIS, and regarding to the continuous changes and rapid developments of economical units, provision of relevant, reliable, and comparable financial information is necessary. To...

This paper reveals the mathematical models to explain the location of industries within macrogeographical areas (Romania's counties), by means of GIS (Geographical Information System) metrics. While the explained variable (output) was the turnover per employee quotient computed from statistical...

This article focuses on how to effectively cope with the open source software (OSS) adoption in the enterprise context. Based on the Linux in Munich case study and the identified technological risks of OSS we show challenges and risks for CIOs and propose recommendations to follow when...

The last decade has changed the face of electronic world: from Web 2.0 to open source software; from e- (electronic) to m- (mobile) and now to touch. For Web developers is a real challenge to make compatible interfaces to all existing Internet browsers. This proves to be even more expensive than...