Purpose: A growing number of commercial open source software, based on free open source software, appears in many … segments of software market. The purpose of this study is to investigate how commercial open source software affects … proprietary software producer's pricing (market share or profit), consumer surplus and social welfare. Design/methodology: To …

Purpose: A growing number of open source software emerges in many segments of the software market. In addition …, software products usually exhibit network externalities. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of open source … software on the quality strategies of proprietary software vendors when the market presents positive network externalities …

Purpose: Innovation competences are expected both in businesses and in higher education. Software organizations, in … facilitate quality output in software development processes.This paper seeks to determine the competences that describe high …-performing, innovative professionals in software engineering in order to weigh them against the FINCODA model on innovation competences …

logistics cost minimization.Design/methodology/approach: In order to optimize the safety stock level while minimizing logistics … costs, a nonlinear cost minimization safety stock model is developed in this paper and then it is applied in a real world … within the supply chain. Originality/value: In this research, two models of cost minimization and simulation have been …

. For analyzing the data the researchers used SPSS and LISREL 8.72 software packages. To find out the result the researchers … majority of the firms fasten more importance to Quality as it ranks second. Cost is ranked as third, while Know-how is ranked … based on six domains namely quality, cost, delivery, flexibility, customer focus, and know-how. This research work gives …