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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:GATECH/oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/24777 |
| Date | 24 June 2008 |
| Creators | Qu, Zhe |
| Publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | Georgia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
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