software activity. We explore the hypothesis that the level of skills of participants and their skill variety are important for …

learning operators. These examples can either be empirical data or originate from an economic simulation model. The software …

firms. Particularly, the impact of the wide variation of business models of software firms has been ignored. This multi case … study investigates the relation between the business model and the entry mode, of eight software firms. The results imply … that the product strategy and the service and implementation model of a software firm are closely connected to the entry …

product life-cycles and use of software). We also find that the manufacturer is able to benefit from price recovery; direct …

This paper analyzes the birth of the Encryption Software Industry (ESI), a new market niche in the software industry … established electronic firms like IBM and Motorola to accumulate knowledge in encryption software technology.Empirical evidence …

The empirical studies relative to the Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) case stress the important role played by …

The debate on software intellectual property rights (IPRs) has not only highlighted fundamental issues regarding the … scheme of protection that software enjoys, it has also pointed out major gaps in the representation of computer programs as … economic goods. In this respect, various interpretations of software propose a limited outlook by referring only to particular …