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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development A Study of the Indian Software Industry
Arora, Ashish - 1999
A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …
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Human capital and the Indian software industry
Arora, Ashish - 2010
Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have not empirically investigated its importance. In this study we study the effect of the supply of engineers, measured by engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth...
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The Evolution of Concentrated Ownership in India Broad patterns and a History of the Indian Software Industry
Khann, Tarun - 2004
same time period. It does not appear that concentrated ownership in India is entirely associated with the ills that the …
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Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade : A Pilot Study
Bate, Roger - 2014
tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries … in India or non-African countries. Since this finding is robust for manufacturer-drug fixed effects, one likely … explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …
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The Overlooked Corporate Finance Problems of a Microsoft Breakup
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2001
This paper identifies problems with the ordered breakup of Microsoft that seem to have been completely overlooked by the government, the judge, and the commentators. The breakup order prohibits Bill Gates and other large Microsoft shareholders from owning shares in both of the companies that...
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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's IT Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish - 2010
This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using comprehensive data on all IT patents granted by the USPTO from 1980-2002, we find strong evidence of a change in IT innovation that is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent...
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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions : Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem
Schwarz, Michael - 2009
We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not been described in the literature: the...
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Patents, Thickets, and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms : Evidence from the Software Industry
Cockburn, Iain M. - 2007
The impact of stronger intellectual property rights in the software industry is controversial. One means by which patents can affect technical change, industry dynamics, and ultimately welfare, is through their role in stimulating or stifling entry by new ventures. Patents can block entry, or...
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Entry and Patenting in the Software Industry
Cockburn, Iain M. - 2006
To what extent are firms kept out of a market by patents covering related technologies? Do patents held by potential entrants make it easier to enter markets? We estimate the empirical relationship between market entry and patents for 27 narrowly defined categories of software products during...
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U.S. v. Microsoft : Did Consumers Win?
Evans, David S. - 2005
U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...
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