Software Business - 8th International Conference, ICSOB 2017, Essen, Germany, June 12-13, 2017, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8 th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2017, held in Essen, Germany, in June 2017.
The 11 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: software startups and platform governance; software business development; software ecosystems and App stores.

List of contents

Software Startups and Platform Governance.- How Are Product Ideas Validated? The Process from Innovation to Requirement Engineering in Software Startups.- Acquisitions and Growth of Software Startups: The Dual Role of Venture Capital as a Success Factor.- Governing Platforms in the Internet of Things.- Software Business Development.- Pricing of Data Products in Data Marketplaces.- Knitting Company Performance and Board Interlocks: An Exploration with the Finnish Software Industry.- Modeling Strategic Complementarity and Synergistic Value Creation in Coopetitive Relationships.- Business Model Exploration for Software Defined Networks.- Software Ecosystems and App Stores.- How do Software Ecosystems Co-Evolve? A View from OpenStack and Beyond.- Health Measurement of Data-Scarce Software Ecosystems: A Case Study of Apple's ResearchKit.- Coopetition of Software Firms in Open Source Software Ecosystems.- Mobile Software Security Threats in the Software Ecosystem: A Callto Arms.- Short papers.- Experimentation that Matters: A Multi-Case Study on the Challenges with A/B Testing.- Why Do Users Install and Delete Apps? A Survey Study.- Evolving Software Products, the Design of a Water Resource Modeling Software Ecosystem.- Towards Understanding Startup Product Development as Effectual Entrepreneurial Behaviors.- Should we be Thanking Microsoft, Apple and Google for their Contributions to Open Source Software?.

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2017, held in Essen, Germany, in June 2017. The 11 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: software startups and platform governance; software business development; software ecosystems and App stores. 

Product details

• Assisted by: Helena Holmström Olsson (Editor), Arto Ojala (Editor), Karl Werder (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2017
• EAN: 9783319691909
• ISBN: 978-3-31-969190-9
• No. of pages: 211
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 362 g
• Illustrations: X, 211 p. 37 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Management, C, Software Engineering, Entrepreneurship, computer science, Innovation/Technology Management, Management of Computing and Information Systems, The Computer Industry, Research & development management, IT Operations, Maintenance & repairs, information architecture, Management information systems, Business mathematics & systems, Industrial Management, Business applications, Software Management, Computer industry, Innovation and Technology Management