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作者：Wen, Wen; Forman, Chris; Graham, Stuart J. H.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：We investigate how intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement against developers and users of open source software (OSS) affects the success of related OSS projects. We hypothesize that when an IPR enforcement action is filed, user interest and developer activity will be negatively affected in two types of related OSS projects-those that display technology overlap with the OSS application in dispute and business projects that are specific to the disputed OSS platform. We examine two widely...
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作者：Burtch, Gordon; Ghose, Anindya; Wattal, Sunil
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; New York University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Crowd-funded markets have recently emerged as a novel source of capital for entrepreneurs. As the economic potential of these markets is now being realized, they are beginning to go mainstream, a trend reflected by the explicit attention crowdfunding has received in the American Jobs Act as a potential avenue for economic growth, as well as the recent focus that regulators such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have placed upon it. Although the formulation of regulation and policy...
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作者：Liang, Huigang; Xue, Yajiong; Wu, Liansheng
作者单位：University of North Carolina; East Carolina University; Peking University
摘要：With reward (carrot) and punishment (stick) widely applied by organizations to regulate mandatory IT usage, it is imperative to understand how these incentives influence employee compliance behavior. Drawing upon control theory and regulatory focus theory, this study investigates the relationships among regulatory focus, reward, punishment, and compliance behavior in mandatory IT settings. Survey data were collected from 186 employees in companies where enterprise resource planning (ERP) compl...
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作者：Venkatesh, Viswanath; Sykes, Tracy Ann
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：Digital divide initiatives in developing countries are an important avenue for the socioeconomic advancement of those countries. Yet little research has focused on understanding the success of such initiatives. We develop a model of technology use and economic outcomes of digital divide initiatives in developing countries. We use social networks as the guiding theoretical lens because it is well suited to this context, given the low literacy, high poverty, high collectivism, and an oral tradit...
