When a software provider releases its software to a platform, it is important to decide not only which platform to choose but also how to release it. This paper investigates a videogame publisher’s strategic decision to provide its videogame titles to each game platform. Specifically, this paper focuses on a game publisher’s outsourcing decision regarding its game releases. Combining transactio...

This work extends earlier work on software upgrades as well as research on real options and IT investment. We consider a two-period model with one software provider who develops and releases a software product to the market. The result shows that the profit from the upgrade policy increases when the market size uncertainty increases. The option value of upgrade is higher when there is more mark...

Sir, the recent publication on “Publication Ethics” is very interesting (1). The article by Fazly Bazzaz and Sadeghi demonstrated many interesting cases                   of misconducts. Indeed, the misconducts can be seen  in many ways. As mentioned in the present publication, both author and editor can perform publication misconducts. Nevertheless, the problem has many more facets. Sometimes,...

We have several exciting new titles for all with a concern about the future of the world's citizens. This year, ITDG Publishing is issuing its own edition of The World Guide 2003/2004, the definitive 'alternative' reference guide to the countries of our planet. Feeding the Market is a highly readable account of smallholder farmers struggling to trade in an era of globalization. For an excellent...

Analysis of the mechanisms of knowledge accumulation that are employed by firms is a key to understanding the success of certain regions, and also of some industries and firms. This paper: proposes a general framework for the firm’s organisational learning dynamics provides empirical evidence of the organisational learning dynamics that actually appear in firms from the software publishing indu...

scientific journals provide a platform for reviewing, publishing and dissemination of the results of new scientific findings and discoveries and cannot be replaced by any other platform. given the important role of scientific journals in dissemination of information, management of such journals takes a high priority. the accurate management of scientific journals takes place only when the diffe...

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Companies are increasingly adopting social software to support collaboration and networking. Although increasing their employees’ connectedness is a major driver for organizations to deploy enterprise social software (ESS), the social connectedness concept itself is still not sufficiently defined and conceptualized. The study therefore provides a richer perspective on social connectedness’s rol...

This note explores the use of UNITY-based theories to facilitate a cottage industry of software publishing. The requirements for such an industry are discussed, the appropriateness of UNITY specification and compositional theories for these requirements are analyzed, and further research opportunities in this area are identified. This work is based on joint work with Beverly Sanders, and the id...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40734-015-0028-1.].