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Three essays on the economics of information technology innovation
Three essays on the economics of information technology innovation
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Qu, Zhe
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Narasimhan, Sridhar
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There are three essays on the economics of information technology innovation in my dissertation:
1. Procurement contracting strategies in a hierarchical supply network;
2. R and D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies firm level evidence from the information technology industry;
3. Software design strategies in markets with open source competitors.
The first essay addresses the impact of an information technology enabled hierarchical supply structure on a firm s procurement strategies.
The second essay investigates information technology hardware innovation. I examine R and D offshoring of information technology hardware firms and its impact on R and D effort of firms in host countries.
The third essay focuses on software innovation. I investigate open source software and its impact on the design of proprietary software in terms of number of features bundled in the software.
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2008-06-24
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