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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ojala, Arto (Editor), Holmström Olsson, Helena (Editor), Werder, Karl (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 304
• Subjects: Computer science.; Entrepreneurship.; Management.; Industrial management.; Management information systems.; Software engineering.; Computer industry.; Computer Science.; The Computer Industry.; Software Management.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Software Engineering.; Innovation/Technology Management.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th 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 31 submissions. They were organized in t...

Table 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 Call to 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?.