While software patents have been growing steadily since 1996 when the restrictions on the patentability of software were eliminated, their value and impacts on firm’s profits remain unclear and ambiguous. Drawing on the real option theory and the literature on exploration and exploitation, we...

While prior research has examined the role of Information Technology (IT) investments in the process and performance of innovation, there is relatively little research on the business value of software innovation itself. In particular, whether a firm's software innovation affects the market...

This article briefly describes the last two decades of the Tata group's transformational journey toward business excellence. It provides an overview of the sequence of business excellence, globalization, and innovation initiatives that the Tata group used to transform itself from a $4 billion...