The development model of free open source software (FOSS) provides important managerial lessons for knowledge creation, innovation, and software and new product development. Yet many unanswered questions exist regarding why certain FOSS projects succeed while others fail. Drawing on social...

This paper considers the effects of some frequently used utility functions in portfolio selection by comparing the optimal investment outcomes corresponding to these utility functions. Assets are assumed to form a complete market of the Black-Scholes type. Under consideration are four frequently...

While there is practitioner interest in real options (RO), there are significant difficulties in practitioner use of complicated RO models, such as compound options pricing models (OPMs) of multistage investments. Drawing upon theories of learning and knowledge, we propose a general framework...