Three essays on the economics of information technology innovation

• Main Author: Qu, Zhe
• Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2008
• Subjects: Open-source software; R and D offshoring; Supply chain; Procurement; Innovation; Information technology; Industrial procurement; Industrial management; Management information systems; Information technology Management
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24777

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.