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 …

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 …

Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a "software-biased shift" in the nature … and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide …-level survey data on the frequency and nature of software development among firms in Sweden, matched with the Community Innovation …

This study examines the efficiency of tools for fighting software piracy in the conditional distributions of software … piracy. Our paper examines software piracy in 99 countries for the period 1994-2010, using contemporary and non …-contemporary quantile regressions. The intuition for modelling distributions contingent on existing levels of software piracy is that the …

global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental … characteristics of software piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low …

software piracy trajectories and dynamics in Africa. Using a battery of estimation techniques that ignore as well as integrate … harmonizing IPRs regimes in the battle against software piracy. Three main findings are established. (1) African countries with … low software piracy rates are catching-up their counterparts with higher rates; implying despite existing divergent IPRs …