Open source software (OSS) is playing an increasing role in information and communication technology (ICT) standards. Many standard development organisations (SDOs) are exploring approaches to incorporating OSS into their standard-setting context. How to address intellectual property rights...

Total Factor Productivity Toolbox is a new package for MATLAB that includes functions to calculate the main Total Factor Productivity (TFP) indices and their decompositions, based on Shephard's distance functions and using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) programming techniques. The package...

This paper examines the role of software piracy in digital platforms where a platform provider makes a decision of how much software to produce in-house and how much to outsource from a third-party software provider. Using a vertical differentiation model, we theoretically investigate how piracy...

The open-source software (OSS) production model has been gaining ground and even expanding to a broader class of products. A central virtue of OSS is co-creation through contributions and feedback from the user community, yet our knowledge of how to coordinate and maximize the benefit of such...

While prior research has examined the role of Information Technology (IT) investments in the process and performance of innovation, there is relatively little research on the business value of software innovation itself. In particular, whether a firm's software innovation affects the market...

Nonlinear usage-based pricing is applied extensively to price software products. Different from other products, software customers often cannot vary their required usage volume, a property we label local demand inelasticity. For instance, a client firm that needs a salesforce automation software...

Starting from the analysis of the Law no 8/1996 on copyright and related rights in Romania, and continuing with the analysis of the main provisions of the European Union Directive 2001/29/EC on copyright and related rights in the information society and the European Union Directive 2009/24/EC on...

In today's fast moving world, trend of plug and play software and hardware is increasing and since the cloud is taking over the market there is high usage bandwidth consuming applications and hardware since loud is on internet and gets the applications or hardware connected real time plus having...