This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France's technology procurement policy that required government agencies to favor open source...

The analysis of an entity's performance has a determining role in establishing the strategies needed to be adopted, especially in times of economical - financial crysis. The defining optics of the concept perfomance can start further controversies, the term performance being unprecisely used,...

Among the several approaches to understanding value in business transactions, the one most frequently encountered in marketing, management, and economics literature is the tradeoff of benefits and costs, the difference or ratio of which is operationalized as value. In a complex business...