Software industry in Kerala is booming at an ever increasing speed. With automation and computerization an ample opportunity employment scenario was opened up particularly in IT and software sector where the salary is attractive and the job is mostly desk type in nature. But at the same time...

Earned value management is the utmost common method used in study of performance of the project. EVM incorporates the project possibility, budget and agenda processes to promote the project management crew to measure project performance from beginning to the end of the project. It is capable of...

Earned value management is a method that predicts the project giving early warning of project cost and schedule. This study is to check effectiveness of EVM in construction industries for tracking the project progress using MSP software. Tracking will enhance the opportunities for project...

World is moving towards “Cloud Computing” as part of the advancement of Technology in general and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in specific. In simple form Cloud computing can be referred to as the application of computer for storing and accessing of data through the web...

What happens to market structure as an industry’s operations lean ever more on software? We find that software availability is associated with an increase in entry and an increase in exit by the oldest and most established firms. We formalize alternative mechanisms by which this could happen...

The emergence of open source and Linux has burdened IT managers with the challenge of whether, when, and in what applications to adopt open source software in their firms. We characterize the conditions under which enterprises adopt open source software. We show that adoption depends crucially...

Agile software development is having a profound impact on the software industry. However, the Agent-Based Social Simulation (ABSS) community has not kept the same pace with the growing interest in agile methods. A review of the evidence available on the relation between agile and ABSS was...

In this paper we study a monopolist technology vendor's decision to degrade their installed base when they release their newer version. An installed base of products that are technologically tethered, whether digital products such as smartphones or predominantly non-digital products such as...

Existing theory predicts two possible and opposing competitive responses by firms to digitalpiracy, resulting in an ambiguous impact on innovation. We resolve this tension by using a naturalexperiment stemming from a shock to file-sharing technology, which led to a sudden increase inpiracy in...

The current study reviews prior literature to analyze its findings and presents the results in a thematic analysis pattern to make comprehension of findings convenient. The paper makes important contributions by investigating the connections between the General Auditing Software (GAS) and the...