The design, manufacture, distribution, and sale of applications represents an international business that is remarkably profitable and quickly growing. IP larceny, consequently, is a daunting challenge for managers of software businesses.
In this post, we make quite a lot of contributions which should prove helpful to supervisors, software designers, users that are accountable, and broad stakeholders of software innovation and use - that's, virtually all of us. In doing so, we supply an overview of international ethical, legal, economical, and systemic factors, and we share an investigation of the drivers of consumer applications piracy. We introduce a decision-making and then argue strategic considerations typology, which might help legitimate companies to formulate strategies and approaches to manage their software IP in the face of widespread piracy.
PUBLICATION DATE: May 15, 2009 PRODUCT #: BH332-PDF-ENG
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