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Career concerns as public good : the role of signaling for open source software development
El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2023
Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the largest online code repository platform, GitHub,...
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Bit by bit : colocation and the death of distance in software developer networks
Goldbeck, Moritz - 2023
Digital work settings potentially facilitate remote collaboration and thereby decrease geographic frictions in knowledge work. Here, I analyze spatial collaboration patterns of some 191 thousand software developers in the United States on the largest code repository platform GitHub. Despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496404
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Enhancing objectivity and decision relevance : a better framework for evaluating cohesion policies
Heinemann, Friedrich; Asatryan, Zareh; Bachtrögler, Julia - 2024
By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is …
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Exzellenz durch Steuerung? : neue Herausforderungen für das deutsche und das französische Wissenschaftssystem ; [am 29. und 30. November 2007 fand im WZB eine ... Konferenz ... sta...
Böhlke, Effi; Laborier, Pascale; Knie, Andreas; Simon, … - 2009
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Evaluationsverfahren aus laborkonstruktivistischer Perspektive
Gülker, Silke; Matthies, Hildegard; Matthäus, Sandra - 2009
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A step towards valuing utility the marginal and cardinal way
Dolan, Paul; Fujiwara, Daniel; Metcalfe, Robert M. - 2011
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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation
Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997
Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....
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Project monitoring and banking competition under adverse selection
Kanniainen, Vesa; Stenbacka, Rune - 1998 - Revised version
We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...
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Exploring the tail of patented invention value distributions
Harhoff, Dietmar; Scherer, Frederic M.; Vopel, Katrin - 1997
Patent renewal studies reveal a highly rightward-skewed distribution of patent values. Our approach elicits valuations approximating those of the patented invention. This paper focuses on the full-term patents of the application year 1977 held by West German and U.S. residents. The tail of...
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