This paper aims at considering the possibility of the future scenario predictions of Japanese software industry through hybrid method. Thus, we try to preliminarily develop a new research framework by connecting the data obtained by large-scale fact-finding investigations, the statistical...

Software development activities have been identified as a 'window of opportunity' for latecomer companies. Notwithstanding the growth of software development activities in the latecomers, there are single exceptional cases of companies that have successfully launched their own products in global...

The paper makes an attempt to examine systematically the capabilities for software production in a latecomer context and to propose an approach for analysing the technological capabilities (TC) in a latecomer software industry. Taking the analysis one step further than identifying capabilities,...