the activity of firms in opensource software to support their innovation strategies. Firms involved in open …-source software often make investments that will be shared with real and potential rivals. We identify four strategies firms employ …

Today, it is almost inevitable that software is licensed, rather than sold outright. As a part of the licensing policy … of such mechanisms has primarily been in the realm of off-the-shelf, packaged, consumer software. However, as component …-based software gradually becomes mainstream in software development, new component-oriented licensing systems are required. This …

This paper analyzes the causes of illegal copying and its effects in the software market across 66countries. By … studying the aggregated and joint effects of different variables, the analysis shows thatsupply constraints in the software … which its aggregated effect onthe software market is positive, and this is an efficient mechanism for market creation. Thus …

agreement for the exchange of domestic (national) traffichas been adopted all through the region; the Internet access market … Internet in South America. We have identified come crucialaspects such as the characteristics of the interconnection … stability of Internet growth in thecontext of the fast developing and ever more complex South AmericanInternet access markets …

the emergence and decline of thetelecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergenceof Internet …