Under the Hood -- Buy, Build, or Borrow

Embedded Signal Processing System: Build or Buy?

" Build or Buy " Strategies in the Local Loop ∗

We provide a dynamic model to study how the presence of the option to "buy" the incumbent local exchange carrier’s (ILEC) facilities via local loop unbundling affects the competitive local exchange carriers’ (CLECs) incentives to "build" alternative infrastructures. We show that an unregulated incumbent sets a rental path for its local loop which delays technology adoption compared to the case ...

Developments in Practice V: IT Sourcing: Build, Buy, or Market

This paper describes the logical evolution of IT service provisioning through various delivery models over time concentrating on the “rent” era as well as the “market” era – an emerging external IT services marketplace that offers rich opportunities for IT organizations to become more cost-effective in the future. With the market era, IT organizations speculate that strategic business applicati...

Explorer To Buy or Not to Buy ?

This paper examines the interaction of law and policy making on prostitution, with that of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism). Recent policy and legal shifts in the UK mark out prostitutes as vulnerable and in need of ‘rescue’. BDSM that amounts to actual bodily harm is unlawful in the UK, and calls to decriminalise it are often met with fears that participants will be left vul...

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