This paper examines the open source and free software movements, and the adaptation of these principles in the context of scientific innovation, benefit-sharing, and access to knowledge. Providing an introduction to the basic concepts, including copyleft, general public licences, and the...

This paper addresses scientific challenges related to high level implementation strategies that leads NEMO to effectively use of the opportunities of exascale systems. We consider two software modules as proof-of-concept: the Sea Surface Height equation solver and the Variational Data...

This study examines the role of project managers' (PM) practical intelligence (PI) in the performance of software offshore outsourcing projects. Based on the extant literature, we conceptualize PI for PMs as their capability to resolve project related work problems, given their long-range and...

Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of...

Nowadays when many technical acronymic words with the radical "system" invade the theory and practice of information systems is essential not to let ourselves tricked by their fashionable and tasteful appearance and think of what they really are. The main purpose of this paper is a theoretical...

This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on a two-sided platform business. Consumer behavior is imperfect and, when adopting a platform, consumers only take prominent software into account. We show that prominent...