A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms … has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic …

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …

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 … software must make complementary investments, when the return on such investments depends on future cooperation of the software …

Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have … engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth of the software exports between 1990 and 2003. We find significant … effect of engineering baccalaureate capacity on the growth of software exports even after controlling for other relevant …

is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent on software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had … software advances than US IT innovation, (b) the innovation performance of Japanese IT firms is increasingly lagging behind … that of their US counterparts, particularly in IT sectors that are more software intensive, and (c) that US IT firms are …