Product Description: Open Source Software (OSS) development appears to present a stark contrast to traditional production and innovation methods and an unlikely contestant in the marketplace. Some of the most striking features are that OSS development is based on contributions of volunteer programmers, that these programmers only associated with each other through informal communities, that the resulting software products are made available for free, and that this unconventional development method is able to produce software of high complexity and extraordinary quality...read more

Product Description: In this study, industrial and enterprise reform over the decade 1989 to 1999 in Eastern Europe is critically reviewed in the light of increasing Eastern integration into the global economy. The authors argue for further globalization of enterprise networks as a condition for recovery and growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)