For a period starting in 2015, Apple, Google, and Microsoft became the most valuable
companies in the world. Each was marked by an external developer ecosystem …

The economic crisis was not just caused by a failure of regulation or economic policy; it was
a story of the failure of management in a fundamental sense—a deeply flawed approach to …

In this thesis I build and test a theory combining societal explanations of politics with rational
choice institutional models. Every theory or model of democratic institutions includes …

Do firms benefit from external as well as internal performance enhancements? Using
proprietary information from a significant fraction of the API tool provision industry, we …

Infrastructure provides critical support to the economy and contributes in an important way to
living standards; assessing the economic role of infrastructure requires defining and …

The digital realm is undergoing a significant transformation, marked by the emergence of
platform business models and the concept of open ecosystems. This paper delves into the …

In this study, we conceptualise a multi-lingual and multi-denominational software for
automated teller machine (ATM). The purpose is to model an ATM that communicates in …

Open source software (OSS) is increasingly being developed by hybrid teams that consist of
a mix of company employees and volunteer developers. While hybrid OSS teams are …

The increase and persistence of irregular migration in the EU is the result in large part from a
labour market demand. In several EU countries various businesses, sectors and services …

The seventeenth-century French philosopher Pierre Bayle, whom Voltaire spoke of as the
“greatest master of the art of reasoning that ever wrote," is best known for his monumental …