This paper provides an explanation as to why software manufacturers from developed countries tolerate widespread … profitable for the software manufacturer to enter the market even if it incurs losses in the beginning when copyright enforcement …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …

The debate on software intellectual property rights (IPRs) has not only highlighted fundamental issues regarding the … scheme of protection that software enjoys, it has also pointed out major gaps in the representation of computer programs as … economic goods. In this respect, various interpretations of software propose a limited outlook by referring only to particular …

strengthening, more particularly in software and business methods areas because these informational goods could be viewed as generic …

software named «Visual Marketing Rel», the research develops an analytic and empirical phase in the olive oil shelf, strategic …

This paper shows how to carry out quantitative narrative analysis (QNA) with different text analysis software (PC … Software: ATLAS.ti, MAXQDA, and NVivo). QNA is a methodological approach to narrative texts that exploits invariant properties … grammar, in data entry, and in data query. A careful comparison of limits and possibilities of the two types of software will …

Computers have become the main tool used in Ground Water Quality Management (GWQM). Computer software has been … efficient handling of information have resulted in increasing integration of the software into Decision Support Systems (DSSs … decision-making processes. A review of current achievements in the software integration and especially in knowledge …

Software transparency is a new and important concern that software developers must deal with. As society moves towards …. Achieving software transparency to this level of openness faces several roadblocks. The paper reports on initial findings on … exploring the obstacles for enabling software transparency. Copyright Gabler Verlag 2010 …