The purpose of this paper is to assess the current state of the software industry in Finland. The GDP share of the IT … industry consisted of approximately 8000 firms with 46 000 employees, of which the contribution of the software industry was 33 … 000 employees. In terms of firm size classes, the variances in profitability and productivity were large in software firms …

We study firm-level adoption of packaged software products of almost 4,000 UK sites between 2000 and 2003. We consider … all software used in a firm as its software product and categorize it into related, but distinct subsystems : the core … further adoptions. Architectural changes hinders adoption of some, but not all software applications. …