In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the...

21st century is acknowledged for its information outburst, technological innovation and also for transmission of such information through Human Resource Information System for successful functioning of organizations. HRIS facilitates retrieval of information quickly and accurately which allows...

This paper analyzes the competitive strategy of proprietary software (PS) firm in the presence of open-source software (OSS) where the copyright holder has granted software users access and use of OSS without any obligation regarding source code disclosure and royalty payments. The OSS is...

Resolving governance disputes is of vital importance for communities. Gathering data from GitHub communities, we employ hybrid inductive methods to study discussions around initiation and change of software licenses—a fundamental and potentially contentious governance issue. First, we apply...

Most of the software organizations often strive hard while deciding the release dates of their software product. This is because no organization wants to take risks where the fault is revealed in the developed product on the client-side. This will lead to expensive bug-fixes, and the image of...

A large proportion of our online activity takes place through a handful of platforms. With increased hostility towards the prevalence of vertical integration in tech markets and calls for the breaking up of profitable technology companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, the time is...

This paper finalizes the current research in Social Media Marketing domain, closely examining the topic of utilizing social media for advertising purposes in software industry field and aims to identify the mechanisms behind consumers' desire to purchase software products and services and the...

This article summarizes findings from selected research conducted under the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) Disability Research Consortium (DRC) at the Mathematica Center for Studying Disability Policy. Mathematica researchers, often in collaboration with SSA and other research...

In this era of «information explosion», financial accounting with information systems is becoming more and more accessible. This paper aims to present some effective applications/services for SMEs, such as the free and open-source software (FOSS/FLOSS) and the proprietary software for...

The literature has been inconclusive regarding which factors determine knowledge worker productivity. To remedy that gap, this paper presented an online experiment to measure the productivity of software programmers, as a representative of knowledge workers, in a particular situation when a more...