The Impact of National Culture on Software Piracy

This paper examines the impact of the level of economic development, income inequality, and five cultural variables on the rate of software piracy at the country level. The study finds that software piracy is significantly correlated to GNP per capita, income inequality, and individualism. Implications for anti-piracy programs and suggestions for future research are developed.     

面向移动开发的软件工程专业教学改革研究

为了使软件工程专业教学符合新时期应用型人才培养的要求,以开放移动开发技术为切入点,通过优化教学内容、丰富教学手段和改进教学方法,将开放移动开发的理论、技术与方法融合到专业教学过程中,探索出面向移动开发的软件工程专业教学新方法和新体系,并将其应用到软件工程专业应用型人才培养实践中。     

软件无线电及其实现方案的研究

在介绍软件无线电的产生、基本概念和系统结构的同时，分析了实现软件无线电的关键技术，并给出了基于目前器件技术水平的中频软件无线电流程框图的折衷方案，最后指出软件无线电技术的美好前景。     

Adoption of Enterprise Application Software and Firm Performance

Due to the rapidly changing business and IT environments, firm-level adoption of IT shifted from in-house development to purchasing EA software. This paper analyzes the effects of EA (Enterprise Application) software – ERP, CRM, SCM, Groupware, KM, EAI – on SMEs’ productivity. The distinct feature of this paper is that I use a formal econometric approach with combined data of SMEs’ accounting and IT usage aspects, while case studies have been mostly used in the previous works. The empirical results show that Groupware and SCM significantly raise the SMEs’ productivity, and the manufacturing sector has stronger effects than the service sector. From these results, the following implications are derived. First, the adoption rate and the real benefits of EA software are not closely related domestically. Second, in SMEs, EA software facilitating the inter-firm relationship is more effective than EA software focusing on the internal efficiency. Third, easy-to-understand, and relatively long-experienced enterprise applications are more effective than hard-to-understand and brand-new applications. Finally, the government IT policy on SMEs should focus on the process coordination and standardization of the manufacturing sector with upstream and downstream firms.     

基于软件复用技术的雷达星体标校软件设计

利用软件复用技术从UML建模、领域分析、软件体系和构件等方面对雷达的标校软件进行了设计,实现了雷达标校软件的可移植性、可维护性,缩短了软件开发的周期.该方法对其它测控软件的开发具有一定的借鉴意义.     

Appropriation of Innovation and Patent Behaviors of Technological Firms in the Yangtze Delta Area

In the transition from “made in China” to “invented in China,” what is the motivation of Chinese firms in applying for patents? Why do some firms bypass patents? How is patenting developing within Chinese firms? This paper attempts to answer these questions using data of Chinese firms in the Yangtze River Delta region. Results indicate that, for product innovation, obtaining the lead time for market entry is of top priority in innovation protection, followed by confidentiality and patent protection. As for process innovation, confidentiality ranks first, followed by patent protection and obtaining the lead time. There is a significant and positive relationship between prior experience of patent licensing and possibility of future patent licensing. Firms with painful patent litigation experience tend to avoid it in the future. It is also found that there are great differences in patent behaviors between Chinese enterprises and their foreign counterparts.     

基于专利情报分析的我国真空冶金产业研究

以国家知识产权局的专利检索与服务系统的专利数据库为数据来源,建立检索式,得到1985年至今我国真空冶金技术专利。借助专利情报分析的方法,从专利整体产出情况、专利研发机构布局、重点研发技术领域等角度分析,得出我国真空冶金产业的发展现状及趋势,为全面掌握真空冶金产业技术创新动向与创新管理提供可靠的参考依据。     

基于目的分支的软件配置管理模型

从软件配置管理应用中版本控制常面临的问题出发,与传统软件配置管理分支模型比较,说明基于目的分支的软件配置管理模型能更好地支持并行软件开发和软件发布控制。     

Investigating Software Piracy in Jordan: An Extension of the Theory of Reasoned Action

Software piracy, the illegal and unauthorized duplication, sale, or distribution of software, is a widespread and costly phenomenon. According to Business Software Alliance (2008), over 41% of the PC software packages installed worldwide were unauthorized copies. Software piracy behavior has been investigated for more than 30 years. However, after a review of the relevant literature, there appears to be two voids in this literature: a lack of studies in non-Western countries and a scarcity of process studies. This study contributes to literature by developing a software piracy model to better understand the decision-making process that underlies this unethical behavior. The model was tested using data collected from a sample of 323 undergraduate business students. Consistent with the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), attitudes toward software piracy and subjective norms were significant predictors of intention to pirate software. Also, the results suggested that ethical ideology, public self-consciousness, and low self-control moderated the effect of these variables on intention to pirate software. The results have important practical implications for the software industry and governments hoping to curtail software piracy. Limitations of the study and recommendations for future studies are discussed as well.     

Considerations in Ethical Decision-Making and Software Piracy

Individuals are faced with the many opportunities to pirate. The decision to pirate or not may be related to an individual's attitudes toward other ethical issues. A person's ethical and moral predispositions and the judgments that they use to make decisions may be consistent across various ethical dilemmas and may indicate their likelihood to pirate software. This paper investigates the relationship between religion and a theoretical ethical decision making process that an individual uses when evaluating ethical or unethical situations. An ethical decision making model was studied for general unethical scenarios and for the unethical behavior of software piracy. The research model was tested via path analysis using structural equation modeling and was found to be appropriate for the sample data. The results suggest that there is a relationship between religion and the stages of an ethical decision making process regarding general ethical situations and software piracy.     

Software to support business teams

Organizations are increasingly using the business team concept to gain competitive advantage. Collaboration support software is gaining acceptance as a viable tool among both researchers and practitioners, and an opportunity exists to investigate the specific needs of teams: users working in longitudinal time frames on a variety of tasks. In this article, team software requirements are first derived from a theoretical perspective: office automation and task literature are used to identify a set of domain-independent individual tasks. Group process literature is then used to develop a set of collaborative tasks composed of these individual task components. These individual and collaborative tasks are aggregated with team task and communication support requirements to develop requirements for an integrated software environment that effectively supports business teams. Design considerations for a comprehensive team support system are outlined, a prototype implementation is described, and project contributions and key future research considerations are summarized.     

Software Development Project Pricing:

Over the past three decades, there has been considerable amount of research done in the area of pricing and the role price plays as a determinant of a purchase decision. Although price is only one aspect that stimulates a purchase decision, it is probably the most important. With the history of pricing filled with failures, ongoing efforts are being made to enhance the processes and techniques used in pricing. The nature of software development projects, taking on the characteristics of a service, and the inherent inaccuracies of software cost estimation methods, adds further considerations on what pricing objectives should be used, how pricing strategies should be formulated, and which pricing method should be adopted. The complexities of pricing are further aggravated by the technical and business context of software development projects. Decision makers and marketers also have to price competitively and yet profitable for software development contracts which are mostly awarded through bidding. Current pricing practices are reviewed, and a pricing framework is presented to aid practitioners and academicians in the pricing of software development projects.     

Software Transparency

Software transparency is a new and important concern that software developers must deal with. As society moves towards increased automation, if citizens wish to exercise their right to know, the transparency of public services and processes acquires fundamental importance. Informed discourse is only possible if processes affecting the public are open to evaluation. Achieving software transparency to this level of openness faces several roadblocks. The paper reports on initial findings on exploring the obstacles for enabling software transparency.     

Fighting Software Piracy: Some Global Conditional Policy Instruments

This study examines the efficiency of tools for fighting software piracy in the conditional distributions of software piracy. Our paper examines software piracy in 99 countries over the period 1994–2010, using contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions. The intuition for modelling distributions contingent on existing levels of software piracy is that the effectiveness of tools against piracy may consistently decrease or increase simultaneously with the increasing levels of software piracy. Hence, blanket policies against software piracy are unlikely to succeed unless they are contingent on initial levels of software piracy and tailored differently across countries with low, medium and high levels of software piracy. Our findings indicate that GDP per capita, research and development expenditure, main intellectual property laws, multilateral treaties, bilateral treaties, World Intellectual Property Organisation treaties, money supply and respect for the rule of law have negative effects on software piracy. Equitably distributed wealth reduces software piracy, and the tendency not to indulge in software piracy because of equitably distributed wealth increases with the increasing software piracy levels. Hence, the negative degree of responsiveness of software piracy to changes in income levels is an increasing function of software piracy. Moreover, the relationships between policy instruments and software piracy display various patterns: U-shape, Kuznets-shape, S-shape and negative thresholds. A negative threshold represents negative estimates with the increasing negative magnitude throughout the conditional distributions of software piracy. We also discuss the policy implications of our study.     

软件无线电技术在军事上的应用评述

本文较为详细地概述了软件无线电技术在国外军事领域开展应用的情况,并列举了典型的系统和计划,阐明了软件无线电技术的未来发展前景。     

Selecting Software for Teaching International Business

Several software developers have recently introduced very powerful programs designed to assist educators, advisors and businesses to learn more about the exporting process. This paper analyzes the relative strengths and weaknesses of five such programs through the application of international marketing concepts and hypothetical case studies. The analysis herein will save potential users the time and effort needed to select the most appropriate program(s) for their teaching and learning objectives. This paper is intended to address the needs of business program educators and students. It may also be of interest to government agencies and other advisors involved in export education and administration, businesses seeking to learn more about the exporting process, and software developers producing programs designed to teach about exporting.     

基于特定领域的软件复用研究

软件复用已成为提高软件开发效率、解决软件危机的重要手段。由于特定领域的需求存在较大共性,并且需求较稳定,使得特定领域的软件复用效率更高。阐述了特定领域的软件复用技术,并提出基于领域工程的开发模式,最后将这一开发模式应用到实际软件开发中。     

SAP给国内管理软件企业带来的启示

随着信息化进程的推进 ,我国管理软件市场迅速形成 ,引来国际企业加入竞争。国内管理软件企业面临着生存与发展的压力。SAP公司的成长经历和管理经验给正在快速发展的我国管理软件企业带来了启示 ,加大研发投入、规范企业研发流程 ,建立合理的人力资源体系是提升企业竞争力的有力保障     

Productivity of Czech Small and Medium Enterprises: Lagging Behind Their Potential

This paper analyzes microeconomic production functions of Czech small and medium enterprises. We use the data from 2002 to 2005 of thirty manufacturing industries (agriculture and services are not included), each divided into five subgroups according to the number of employees. We employ stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to make statistical inference on the production process. Our results demonstrate that Czech SME depend in their functioning more on labour than on capital. The impact of tangible or intangible assets such as software or patents is negligible, while the effect of investment is negative. SFA strongly supports the presence of a systematic gap between common practice and best practice: the majority of firms significantly differ from top performers. Finally a simple test for time effect shows that between 2003 and 2005 Czech SME moved towards higher efficiency.     

一种基于模式的集中控制软件架构的设计

为适应各种控制管理类系统的发展,传统的软件设计开发方式已不能满足需求。为此,研究并设计了一种基于模式的集中控制系统软件架构。实际应用结果表明,该软件架构具有较强的可复用性和扩展性。