Вип. 14. Економічні студії

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Economic Forces at Work in Academia
(2004) Coupe, Tom
When economists think and write about organizations, they typically focus on commercial firms A relatively small number of economists, however, have recently begun focusing on the organization in which they work, universities. This note reviews some of this literature and draws parallelisms between the behavior and characteristics affirms and the behavior and characteristics of universities. One will note that most of this literature is based on the experience of US universities, while few studies look at West European universities. As far as I know there are no systematic (English language) studies that use Central and East European universities as subject of study. In this note, I will focus on 4 issues: the incentives given by universities to their employees, the internal organization of universities, the competition between universities for students and faculty and the use of reputation by universities.
Incentive Systems Behind Open Source Software Development
(2004) Vakhitov, Volodymyr
The paper considers different theories of software development seeking for an answer to the following question: Why do all those numerous user-developers devote a significant part of their time and efforts to produce a virtually free public good? A long with standard economic approach borrowedfrom the theory of the firm, new theories particular for specifically open source software development are also present.