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Three essays on the economics of information technology innovation

dc.contributor.advisor Narasimhan, Sridhar
dc.contributor.author Qu, Zhe en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Li, Haizheng
dc.contributor.committeeMember Slaughter, Sandra
dc.contributor.committeeMember Thursby, Marie
dc.contributor.committeeMember Zhang, Han
dc.contributor.department Management en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-09-17T19:51:28Z
dc.date.available 2008-09-17T19:51:28Z
dc.date.issued 2008-06-24 en_US
dc.description.abstract 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. en_US
dc.description.degree Ph.D. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24777
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Open-source software en_US
dc.subject R and D offshoring en_US
dc.subject Supply chain en_US
dc.subject Procurement en_US
dc.subject Innovation en_US
dc.subject Information technology en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Industrial procurement
dc.subject.lcsh Industrial management
dc.subject.lcsh Management information systems
dc.subject.lcsh Information technology Management
dc.title Three essays on the economics of information technology innovation en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Narasimhan, Sridhar
local.contributor.corporatename Scheller College of Business
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