This research investigates the utility of Ostrom and Crawford's rule classification framework (elaborated in Understanding Institutional Diversity) in the systematic study of rule systems in a set of relatively complex open source projects and their overarching non-profit foundation. Using this...

Organizations are being set up to develop software. Generally such organizations are concerned with the development of software for a specific customer or general packages in some of the functional areas of Management.Scientific software is not very common in the majority of these organizations....

Development, distribution, implementation and maintenance of software in various applications is considered to be one of the fastest growing sectors of Economy. USA has been the leader in this field by virtue of its initial developments in hardware/software and subsequent advantage of new...

This paper examines Virtualization Technologies which are popular in modern financial management systems. Many researchers and financial systems administrators have researched the techniques related to utilizing server computational resources. Currently there are many technologies for this...

Este trabajo plantea evaluar los desafíos y oportunidades de la industria de software y servicios informáticos en los países de la Argentina, Brasil y México. Se analizan para cada país los factores claves que determinan y condicionan el desarrollo de la industria a nivel local y global. Se...

The protectability (or not) of computer program interfaces, the legality of reverse engineering of program code to extract interface information and the reimplementation of interfaces in complementary or competing programs was deeply controversial in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For the past...

An experimental study examined effects of knowledge map-based learning, a form of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI), on assisting novice users in acquiring software knowledge and skills. Fifty five subjects participated in this experimental study. Two classes of students in a webpage...

The phenomenon of unfair terms in mass-market contracts is widely acknowledged, as is the fictional nature of “assent” or “consent” to all but a few obvious terms, such as price and key product features. Although some still argue for facilitating choice through better disclosure and...

The conventional wisdom in Egypt examines the issue of intellectual property solely as a question of policing and enforcement. The high levels of protection indicated by the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights are unquestioningly assumed to be desirable. Policy...

While the concepts of lean production are frequently applied in service organizations there is little work that rigorously has examined implementing lean production in contexts other than manufacturing as well as lean production's impact on performance in these settings. In this paper we set out...