strengthening, more particularly in software and business methods areas because these informational goods could be viewed as generic …

: Free/libre or open-source software (FLOSS) is nowadays produced not only by individual benevolent developers but, in … that, beside factors like the importance of software as a core competence of the firm, the role of users on the related … empirical stylized facts drawn from the recent trends in the software industry …

, previous results indicate that demand variability causes a performance degradation in terms of inventory related costs when … to an augmentation of optimal base-stock levels and to a corresponding increase in optimal inventory related costs. We …

effects across countries subjected to some set of PSRO and to compute estimates of the compliance costs associated with rules …

This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …. Female presence and professional diversity reduce risk but nationality and ethnicity diversities are associated with higher …

non-zero risk levels. Some contemporary European societies tolerate about one fatality per thousand year around industrial …

-agricultural sector is considered as a risk-mitigating strategy by rural Pakistani households. This issue has already been addressed but … whether ex ante engagement in the non-agricultural sector is partly motivated by a desire to mitigate risk. The main feature …