We develop a vertical differentiation game-theoretic model that addresses the issue of designing free software samples for attaining follow-on sales. When software samples are akin to durable goods, a Monopolist giving a free sample away is likely to engender the cannibalization of sales of its...

The heart of inventory transactions management involves obtaining an accurate count of on-hand inventories employing different procedures. Among such procedures cycle counting is said to provide better inventory record accuracy for financial control and production planning. However, these...

In this paper, we adopt an organizational perspective to the management of information security and analyze in a multi-period context how an organization should allocate its internal cash flows and available external funds to revenuegenerating (productive) and security assuring (protective)...

Many of the concepts and procedures of product quality control can be applied to the problem of producing better quality information outputs. From this perspective, information outputs can be viewed as information products, and many information systems can be modeled as information manufacturing...

Since China's open-door policy was initiated in late 1978, there has been rapid increase in the numbers of foreign investors and foreign capital flows to China. The growing trend of foreign investment has been magnified by the improvement of economic circumstances and market-oriented economic...