The market for security software has witnessed an unprecedented growth in recent years. A closer examination of this … software market, furnish rigorous arguments for several counterintuitive observations in the real world, and provide managerial …

variety) on the long tail and superstar phenomena in the context of online software downloading. The descriptive analysis … technique, we find the significant interaction effect between online user reviews and product variety on software download. We …

created opportunities for independent entrepreneurs to offer their self-developed software applications (“apps”) to large …

The 1999 addition of business sector software and services spending was an important National Income and Product …, enterprise information and communication technology (ICT) has fundamentally changed. As a software producing sector, the business … sector ICT function now has a much wider array of choices - software-as-a-service; open-source software; computing, storage …

using data from 120 software outsourcing alliances that, independently, process control, outcome control, and modularity …

more widespread use of open source software would increase the Internet's ability to resist governmental control. This … Essay explores whether more widespread use of open source software might provide the basis for the type of bottom …

This paper aims to analyze the characteristics of the career paths of software engineers and draws relevant policy … implications. Although the career path for software engineers is known to be very short, the software industry suffers from a … shortage of highly qualified software engineers, who usually have many years of experience in the industry. Based on the 2012 …

Enterprise software systems are required to be highly reliable as they are central to the business operations of most … reliability. Resource constrained software teams facing business pressures can be tempted to take design shortcuts in order to … accumulation of technical debt, that is, a buildup of software maintenance obligations that need to be addressed in the future. We …

We study how the strength of public intellectual property rights (IPR) protection against software piracy (copyright … protection) affects private IPR protection (that software developers may themselves undertake to protect their IPR). There are … two software developers that offer a product variety of differing (exogenously given) quality and compete in prices for …

In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of …. The richness of the dataset allows us to disaggregate countries into fundamental characteristics of business software … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …