Andrea Bonaccorsi

Abstract: Export marketing literature supports the view that firm size is positively related to export intensity. Although the empirical findings have been mixed, a number of theoretical arguments are used to support this proposition, i.e., international marketing economies of scale, limited managerial and financial resources of small firms, decisionmaker's risk perception. Based on a large survey of the Italian manufacturing industry, the article falsifies the proposition and challenges some widely held assumptions in export marketing literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss three key economic problems raised by the emergence of Open Source: motivation, co-ordination, and diffusion, and show that recent developments in the theory of diffusion of technologies with network externality may help to explain these phenomena.

TL;DR: A taxonomy for university-industy relationships is proposed and the problem of evaluating relationships between universities and industries by defining the concept of ‘relationship performance’ is addressed.

TL;DR: Empirical evidence shows that firms have adapted to an environment dominated by incumbent standards by combining the offering of proprietary and OS software under different licensing schemes, thus choosing a hybrid business model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the strategies of software firms that have entered the open source (OS) field and examine the determinants of the degree of openness toward OS and discuss the stability of hybrid models in the evolution of the industry.