Many medical devices contain proprietary or off-the-shelf software, which the device relies on for its operation. Like most software, this software often contains errors and vulnerabilities that may lead to malfunction or failures either as a result of the error itself or due to malware...

Building on extant literature in innovation management and marketing, we develop a factor model for explaining firm value innovation that can be reflected in their systems project management. Our model focuses on value innovation and analyzes it from the aspect of willingness-to-cannibalize...

This paper develops a theoretical framework in which patents and control of downstream co-specialized assets affect the way firms profit from innovation according to the stage of industry evolution. We argue that in early stages of industry life cycle the effectiveness of patents in protecting...

Numerous studies examine potential facilitators and inhibitors of open source software (OSS) adoption at the firm level. This study represents the first attempt to propose and test a multi-level framework, examining the effects of five country-level variables and two under-explored firm-level...

Early Internet scholars proclaimed that the transnational nature of the Internet rendered it inherently unregulable by conventional governments. Instead, the Internet would be governed by customs and practices established by the end user community in a manner reminiscent of the lex mercatoria,...

Work-life balance is characterized by a condition of balance in which the demands of both a man's occupation and individual life are equivalent. It involves contributing equivalent measures of time and vitality between work and individual life. The transformation of information and communication...

Visualization of data envelopment analysis (DEA) problems can be a very informative step in order to get insight into the problems and their characteristics. Through the various visualization methods, one can literally look at the DEA problem and the related data from different perspectives....

The growing importance of computer-related software patents awarded in the United States and around the world is a topic that continues to generate discussion. Given the global environment, the question of why organizations from one country seek patent protection from another country is of...