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Managing organizations -- Management and control: organizational preparedness -- Understanding IT acquisitions preparedness: organizational perspectives -- Understanding IT acquisitions: associated models -- Conceptualization of IT acquisition life cycle management model -- Development of IT...

This book is a collection of recent essays offering fresh perspectives on the scope and future of intellectual property rights. The tripartite division of the book is designed to make this inter-disciplinary topic more accessible and intelligible to readers of diverse backgrounds. Part I...

An overview of service level agreements / Nicholas B. Beaumont -- Understanding consumer reactions to offshore outsourcing of customer services / Piyush Sharma, Rajiv Mathur, Abhinav Dhawan -- IT offshoring : a German perspective / Michael Amberg, Martin Wiener -- Information systems/information...

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Innovative or indefensible? an empirical assessment of patenting within standard setting / Anne Layne-Farrar -- Assessing the link between standards and patents / Anne Layne-Farrar, A. Jorge Padilla -- Interpreting and enforcing the voluntary FRAND commitment / Roger G. Brooks, Damien Geradin --...

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