The productivity paradox of information technology has said to be one of the most difficult problem of computing field. We must try to improve productivity of both computing applications and software industry. It is therefore vital to identify and differentiate productive efforts from non-productive ones. In this paper we develop two frameworks for analysis of tasks in the development of inform...

Although people admittedly are one of the most valuable assets of many software companies, relatively little academic research has been done from the well-­‐being at work aspect of software professionals. This intervention study aims to address this gap in prior r...

The evaluation of research & development (R&D) performance has been an important problem of both academic interest and practical need. This paper presents an empirical study in which we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the R&D performance of 52 integrated semiconductor firms located at Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park in Taiwan. We found that the R&D performance is very diff...

Buildings require both for construction and due, to their comparatively long life cycle for maintenance, significant raw material and energy resources. So far available knowledge about resource consumption during an entire life cycle of a building is still quite rare, because various criteria affect each other and/or overlay mutually. In this thesis work a software concept is presented using an...

Data on assignees of patenters are used to analyze the mobility of semiconductor inventors. A model of the entry and staffing of spinoffs of incumbent producers is developed to explain the higher mobility of semiconductor inventors in Silicon Valley. Exploiting data on the origins of semiconductor producers with larger sales, we argue that the greater mobility of semiconductor inventors in Sili...

although economic and managerial literature is replete with studies that probe about productivity but only a few studies decompose it to its components (technological changes, managerial efficiency changes and scale efficiency changes)and analysis their share in productivity changes (positively or negatively). accordingly, this article attempts to explain the issue by decompose productivity to ...

the software industry is a manifestation of soft skills as well as human abstract and intangible thinking based on human intelligence. however, the effects are understandable. passing the hardware era and considering software technologies reveals the necessity of the capable human factor and software industry. despite the efforts that have been made in this field in iran, yet the technology is ...