To examine what, if any, are the differences in how activities are coordinated within-firms vs. between-firms we conducted interviews with 32 project managers regarding 60 projects in the offshore software services industry. Uniquely, our projects were sampled along two dimensions: (1)...

The 1985 amendments to the Japanese Copyright Act represent one of the more detailed statutory approaches to computer program protection now in existence, and it deals implicitly with a number of important problems that are already a source of dispute in other countries arising out of the...

This paper examines the open source and free software movements, and the adaptation of these principles in the context of scientific innovation, benefit-sharing, and access to knowledge. Providing an introduction to the basic concepts, including copyleft, general public licences, and the...

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software industry. In this paper we focus on the choice of intellectual property right regimes and industry growth. We begin by developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and...

The debate continues to rage over the proper place of computer programs within the copyright protective scheme. The debate is not over copying of code for resale or for the purpose of creating a usable second program to accomplish the function intended by its author, but rather, over what other...

Using the method of comparative analysis, this paper explores different legal issues related to software management within universities. It is organized in two sections. The first section will deal with the crucial issue of ownership of intellectual property rights in copyrights and patents,...

This paper addresses scientific challenges related to high level implementation strategies that leads NEMO to effectively use of the opportunities of exascale systems. We consider two software modules as proof-of-concept: the Sea Surface Height equation solver and the Variational Data...

This study examines the role of project managers' (PM) practical intelligence (PI) in the performance of software offshore outsourcing projects. Based on the extant literature, we conceptualize PI for PMs as their capability to resolve project related work problems, given their long-range and...

Commentators, public officials, and scholars have sounded alarms over the smartphone patent wars — hundreds of cases asserting infringement of patents by makers of smartphones and tablet computers — often suggesting broad, categorical “fixes” to problems this litigation reveals. In...

In today's commercial world, accounting softwares are of great importance for purposes of collecting, classifying and yielding financial reports; thus, it is an essential necessity for every firm to select appropriate and highly efficient software in order to reach their organizational goals....