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The Economics of Open Source Software Development
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 110.00Provides up-to-the-minute information on the latest Open Source Software (OSS) developments more...
What the Dormouse Said
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 16.00Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff?s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs?the culture being counter? and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It?s a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and ?70s, where a group of visionaries... more...
The Change Function
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 24.95The ultimate guide to predicting winners and losers in high technology Pip Coburn became famous for writing some of the liveliest reports on Wall Street. He quoted everyone from Machiavelli to HAL, Anaïs Nin to Yoda, Einstein to Gandhi. But along with the quirky writing, he consistently delivered sharp insights into technology trends and helped... more...
Guanxi (The Art of Relationships)
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 19.99Half a world away from the calm beauty of Puget Sound, there's a lab where Bill Gates's software dreams come true . . . . So begins Guanxi , the compelling on-the-scenes tale of the allure of China today -- and of a unique partnership between the world's most famous capitalist and the world's largest communist nation that showcases what it takes... more...
The Indian Software Industry
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 128.00The Indian software industry has rapidly grown over the past decade, most of this growth has been derived from exports to the US market. This book deals with business models, particularly as the way that the software model in India has evolved is unique. It focuses on manpower resources in the software industry and knowledge diffusion through job... more...
The Nature of Technology
Free Press 2009; US$ 16.00?More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,? says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology?s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Does... more...
New Industries from New Places
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 14.99Software comes from India, hardware comes from China. Why is that? Why did China and India take such different paths to global dominance in new high-tech industries? Will their paths continue to diverge or converge? How can other countries learn from their successes and failures in reaching global scale in new industries? To answer these questions,... more...
The Microsoft Case
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 25.00In 1998, the United States Department of Justice and state antitrust agencies charged that Microsoft was monopolizing the market for personal computer operating systems. More than ten years later, the case is still the defining antitrust litigation of our era. William H. Page and John E. Lopatka’s The Microsoft Case contributes... more...
Aging and Working in the New Economy
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00Includes case studies and analyses that provide insight into the structural features of small and medium-sized firms in the Information Technology sector, and the implications of these features for the careers of people who are employed by them. more...
The Economic Impact of ICT
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 109.00Information and communications technology (ICT) has become a key driver of economic growth over the past decade. The rapid diffusion of the Internet, of mobile telephony and of broadband networks all demonstrate how pervasive this technology has become. But how precisely does ICT affect economic growth and the efficiency of firms? And how well can... more...









