) on the leadership qualities and competencies of the management team of the T-Systems South-Africa’s Systems Integration … environment that brings about unique challenges for the leadership qualities and skills of the modern leader and team member … impact that increased awareness and knowledge regarding EQ abilities could have on leadership within an ICT department …

There are three essays on the economics of information technology innovation in my dissertation:1. Procurement … procurement strategies. The second essay investigates information technology hardware innovation. I examine R and D offshoring of … software innovation. I investigate open source software and its impact on the design of proprietary software in terms of number …

We introduce a diffusion of innovation model based on a network threshold approach. Realistic network and threshold … are a second threshold for innovation rejection and a memory that allows actors to take trends into account. Computer … of good targets can accelerate innovation diffusion. …

markets with highly skewed returns to innovation pay a premium to attract talented workers. Yet these same firms also reward … potential payoffs from innovation. These results not only contribute to our knowledge of firm human resource practices and …

findings have implications for the future of vaccine development, as well as for the analysis of biomedical innovation in our …