This paper contributes to the debate on the adequate elicitation of individual risk attitudes in general socio-economic surveys. A multi-item question on the willingness to take risk, a very short form of the DOSPERT scale (Weber et al., 2002) and a series of lottery tasks are compared with...

Modern software systems are growing increasingly complex, requiring increased complexity of software and software development process (SDP). Most software complexity measurement approaches focus on software features such as code size, code defects, number of control paths, etc. However, software...

Background and purpose. This thesis documents a program of five studies concerned with the assessment of software measurement. The goal of this program is to assist the software industry to improve the information support for managers, analysts and software engineers by providing evidence of...

Given the rapid development of computer techniques and the growing demand from the customer side, system customisation is becoming a necessity for software development, and this area of specialisation is attracting increasing attention from scholars. The innovative functions or applications...

In this paper, we use an evolutionary economic framework on knowledge management to make a first assessment of Swedish production of “embedded software”. The assessment starts by reviewing definitions and measurement techniques of software production. The reviews objective is to capture...

Clustered covariances or clustered standard errors are very widely used to account for correlated or clustered data, especially in economics, political sciences, or other social sciences. They are employed to adjust the inference following estimation of a standard least-squares regression or...