Tridas Mukhopadhyay - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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There are two popular forms of B2B marketplaces: public marketplaces and private channels based on web services. We study why firms choose either or both of these B2B channels. Using a real-options framework, we explain firms' choice of B2B channels as a hedging strategy and as a method of obtaining greater managerial flexibility for the future. We show that uncertainty can precipitate the creatio...Show More
In this research, we use a game-theoretic model to examine personalization of information in a two-dimensional product differentiation model, when consumers attach importance to 'preference fit' as well as 'product quality'. We report the equilibrium in terms of two factors: one, the extent of firms' ex-ante horizontal differentiation; and two, the 'Quality-Fit' (Q-F) Ratio, which measures the rel...Show More
IT value remains a serious concern of management today, especially how it should be measured and how it is created. Although we have made significant progress at the firm and aggregate levels of analysis, process level analysis is still in its infancy, and there is a need for a systematic basis for identifying IT impacts. We provide such an approach by developing two models: a process performance ...Show More
Software metrics programs are an important part of a software organization's productivity and quality initiatives as precursors to process-based improvement programs. Like other innovative practices, the implementation of metrics programs is prone to influences from the greater institutional environment the organization exists in. In this paper, we study the influence of both external and internal...Show More
The Internet search engine market has seen a proliferation of entrants over the last few years. While Yahoo! was the early market leader, there has been entry by both lower quality engines and higher quality ones. Prior work on quality differentiation requires that low quality products have low prices, in order to survive in a market with high quality products. However, the price charged to users ...Show More
Measurement programs in software organizations are an important source of control over quality and cost in software development. The findings of this research presented here are based on an industry-wide survey conducted to examine the factors that influence success in software metrics programs. Our approach is to go beyond the anecdotal information on metrics programs that exists in the literatur...Show More
B2B electronic commerce has become an important issue in the debate about electronic commerce. How should the intermediary charge suppliers and buyers to maximize profits from such a marketplace? We analyze a monopolistic B2B marketplace owned by an independent intermediary. The marketplace exhibits two-sided network externalities where the value of the marketplace to buyers is dependent on the nu...Show More
While a great deal is known about technical issues of data gathering and applied statistics, less is known about what it takes to implement a successful software measurement program. Indeed, a good deal of anecdotal evidence suggests that such efforts often fail. In this paper, we report the initial results from a large-scale survey of practitioners and users of software measurement programs. A pr...Show More
A firm with a new Information Technology (IT) product may consider licensing it to firms in the same industry or other industries. The impact of the new product on the operating costs of the firms is usually uncertain. The costs may increase or decrease as a result of the new product. Once the new IT product is used for some time, however, firms come to know the actual cost impact. WE develop a du...Show More
Firms developing software face increasing pressures to improve product quality, productivity, time to market, and customer satisfaction. As projects increase in size and complexity, and competition grows, firms are reengineering their software processes. They are adopting more intensive procedures for requirements management, project planning, defect tracking, configuration management, design and ...Show More
Models are developed to estimate lines of code and function counts directly from user application features of process control systems early in the software development lifecycle. Since the application features are known with reasonable degree of confidence during early stages of development, it is possible to extend the use of the constructive cost model (COCOMO) and function-points-based approach...Show More
The authors develop an analytical model for determining the optimal rewriting time. They consider two rewriting strategies involving two different technologies. Several interesting propositions with managerial implications emerge from the analysis. These include the impacts of increasing maintenance requirements and unstructuredness of the technology on the optimal rewriting time, the differences ...Show More