End-User Contribution to Logistics Value Co-Creation: A Series of Exploratory Studies

ABSTRACT

Recently, retailers have been investing in technology-based platforms such as mobile applications to involve more of their customers in logistical value co-creation activities. Therefore, it would be important to guide these efforts by providing the retailers with a list of various consumer logistics value co-creation activities and help them better organize their technological investments by categorizing these functions. The objective of this study is to explore the logistics activities through which the end users can contribute to co-creation of value based on the notions of Service-Dominant Logic. A series of 4 exploratory survey studies revealed 10 end-user logistics functions and important implications for practice.     

Adoption of Biometric Authentication Systems: Implications for Research and Practice in the Deployment of End-User Security Systems

Recent security lapses have demonstrated the importance of augmenting authentication protocols in sensitive areas of the economy, such as financial services and banking. In addition, new legislative requirements for secondary authentication mechanisms have highlighted the use of biometric technology as a reliable, but not required, means of authentication. The focus of this study examines the factors that influence the adoption of biometric authentication in organizations. The research model measures the relative contribution that variables in three categories (External Pressure, Readiness, and Perceived Benefits) have in the intent to adopt biometric authentication in financial services institutions. Managers of these institutions were surveyed, and the resulting model indicates that, as expected, the intent to adopt is driven by competitive factors, an organization's financial resources, and the perceived benefits associated with the technology. An important unanticipated finding from this research is that managerial support was not shown to be significantly related to adoption intent, which may be attributed to the context of biometric systems adoption. This research advances our understanding of the adoption literature by demonstrating how structural factors can influence the decisions made by organizational actors and by applying theories of adoption to a new technology—biometrics.     

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.     

Positive Affect and Malleable Mental Accounting: An Investigation of the Role of Positive Affect in Flexible Expense Categorization and Spending

The present research examines the impact of positive affect on mental accounting and the underlying mechanisms. The authors find that individuals in a positive (vs. neutral) affective state are less likely to exploit ambiguity in mental accounts and justify spending, but only when processing resources are unconstrained. In contrast, when processing resources are limited (high cognitive load), those in a positive (vs. neutral) affective state are more likely to spend. These findings offer new insights into the interplay between affect and cognition in decision making, the use of mental accounting strategies, and the role of affect in spending and self‐control.     

通过软件测试提高航空电台软件质量

为了提高软件质量，进行软件测试是一种重要手段。介绍了软件测试的基本流程和方法，并通过实例验证了方法的有效性。     

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.     

软件定义的时代 2020中国软件产业年会在京成功召开

2020年1月8日,由中国软件行业协会主办的2020中国软件产业年会在国家会议中心召开,吸引了来自政府主管部门、研究机构、行业组织、企事业单位和媒体代表1500余人参会,现场热闹非凡,盛况空前。     

Great Potentialfor China's Software

Chinabeganproducingsombreinthemid-1950s,sincewhenithasgonethroughthreestages.Thefirststagewitnessedtheself-developmentofsoftware.Inthe1960s,ChinaresearchedandproducedcomputersoftwareandapplicationsoftwareindependenhXbuttheyweretheresultsofresearch,ratherthancommodities.Duringthesecondstage,fromthe1970stomid-1980s,ChinatransferredandturnedforeignsoftwareintoChinese,andsoftwareappearedonthemarketascommodities.Chinesesoftwarewasinihallydeveloped,somechicalappliedproduCtsandappliedsystemscameint…     

上海软件外包拓展对外开放度

目前从上海软件外包国际峰会传出信息，目前．上海已构筑起较为先进的信息基础设施框架，成为现代化城市发展不可或缺的“神经系统”，信息产业增加值占全市GDP比重从1997年的5．3％攀升到2002年的9%：去年上海高新技术产品出口总额达到74.8亿美元,其中信息产业占17％，超过全市出口的1／5，吸引外资占全市的1/3，近两年，上海把推动软件产业发展作为一项着眼长远的重点工作，已连续保持50％以上的增长速度，今年上半年实现经营收入同比增长68．4％，显示了强劲的增长势头。     

爱尔兰、印度软件产业出口之道

2000岁末，由上海市外经贸委组织的软件考察团一行15人专程赴爱尔兰和印度学习考察软件产业的发展情况和主要经验，以及探索加强双方合作，扩大上海软件出口的可能性。通过学习考察，深悉两国软件产业实属全球同业的佼佼者，他们积累的经验对我国软件产业的发展与出口颇有借鉴意义。     

可复用仿真系统软件构架设计

本文介绍了可复用的仿真系统软件构架设计。该构架设计运用面向对象思想，结合MFC(微软函数库)对象框架所具有的模块化特点，达到了灵活可复用的目的。文章重点介绍了软件分层技术、内存共享池建立的方法以及运用消息在对象中传递数据等技术。这些技术有效地解决了用户需求发生较大变动时的软件复用问题。     

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.     

工程造价软件行业品牌建设亟须加强

<正>今年国务院大部制改革中新设立工业和信息部,这表明我国正在全力推进信息化和工业化融合,推进工业信息化建设。随着国家经济迅速发展,房地产等基础设施建设行业也得到迅速发展,与之相伴的是工程造价行业快速发展,信息化程度快速提高,然而相关的软件企业的社会认知度却很低。工程造价软件企业为了做大做强,需要     

Pricing Strategies of Software Vendors

Due to the economic characteristics specific to the software industry, pricing concepts existing in other industries cannot be transferred without adaptation. Therefore, this article provides an overview of pricing models for software. In this context we discuss the six parameters formation of prices, structure of payment flow, assessment base, price discrimination, price bundling, and dynamic pricing strategies. Furthermore, we refer to recent software delivery models, such as Software as a service. The results are based on literature research and empirical studies.     

Beijing''''s Software Industry in 2003

On March 20,2003,Beijing's softwareindustry held a meeting in Beijing toconcluded its work for the year 2002 andstarted its goal for development in 2003,which aims at a great advance in the year. The conference,chaired by Mr.Ma Lin,director of the Beijing Science andTechnology Commission,invited officialsfrom the State Council InformationallzationOffice,Ministry of Science andTechnology,Ministry of InformationIndustry and Beijing MunicipalGovernment to deliver speeches andhas 500 representatives from softwareparks,science incubation organs,transnational corporations,softwareenterprises,universities and collegesand science research institutes attended. In 2002,Beijing's software industry     

Economic Benefits of Renting Software

In this article, we analyze the economics of a monopoly firm selling and renting a packaged software product by employing an intertemporal monopoly pricing game to model the firm's pricing strategy. The game models the software product as two versions; the first version is available in the first period and the second, a revised version, is available in the second period. The second version benefits from consumer reports of bugs and requests for additional features. This is modeled using delayed network externalities that take effect only in the second period. We observe that the introduction of the rental product in the first period leads to an increase in profits. We also find that the firm's profits are monotonically increasing with the intensity of the network effect. As the intensity of the network effect becomes stronger, the firm chooses to reduce its prices in the first period to expand the size of its network and later increases prices in the second period. Because many of the customers who choose to rent in the first period subsequently make a purchase in the second period, the firm is able to capture the benefits of network externalities in the first period without reducing sales in the second period. For high levels of network intensity, consumer surplus and social welfare are also higher.