The scale of development and deployment of open source software in the three North East Asian countries - China, Japan and South Korea - is large enough to be noticed at the global level. OSS has redefined the dynamics of software markets in the three countries and has brought significant...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of economic and political factors on advertising industry in the enlarging EU. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employed random effect time series cross‐section (TSCS) models and cross sectional regressions to...

China is emerging as a global capital of m-commerce applications. China is the world's biggest mobile market in terms of subscriber base and the fastest growing in the history of telecommunications. Although China currently lacks advanced mobile applications compared to Europe, North America,...

Although offshore BPO has been a focus of considerable attention in popular press, there is a serious dearth of academic research on this area. This paper first establishes that offshore BPO functions in the same manner as osmosis. We then draw upon constructs and concepts in osmosis to develop...

This article presents methodology for identifying product categories that, if they were made the subjects of a specified state’s export promotions, would hold promise for satisfying relevant needs of members of three key ‘‘stakeholder’’ groups regarding the outcomes of the...