...and users throughout information technology industries for the past decade. Using standards contests of the past 20 years, this paper examines the implicit assumptions of such theories and suggests examples...
...logic with several examples.5 Section II explains how exclusivity can cause greater harm to industry performance in network industries than in other settings. Section III describes the elements of a...
...consumption and production externalities, commonly called network externalities. We discuss their sources and their effects on pricing and market structure. We distinguish between results that do not depend on the...
...(a) the importance of IP for innovation management, (b) reasons why small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and business start-ups make inadequate use of the IP system, making a case for...
...to design DRM systems and electronic commerce business models that allow fair use is commonly agreed. But the intelligence and contextual factors that a judge uses in interpreting the legal...
Technology consortia are technology alliances among business firms, universities and governments. They are formed to share increasingly rising costs and risks associated with undertaking basic or precompetitive research and development...
...these systems are open, pasted-up, uncontrollable expanding infrastructures; strategic alignment flounders in never-ending tactics and compromises; globalization generates side-effects. Harnessed to enhance control over complex, global organizations, ERPs enshrine the...
This article examines the roles of multinational corporations and the European Union (EU) in structuring global competition around wireless standardization. It analyzes the realities of global competition in information and...
...Department of Veterans Affairs. This example illuminates the complexities of building a community after a code base has been developed and suggests that open source software can be used to...
...throughout East and Southeast Asia as well. The Business Software Alliance estimates that losses to American companies from all property rights infringements are worth more than two billion dollars annually....