from start-ups. We study this question in the context of the software industry, an environment where evidence of the … an independent software vendor's (ISV's) decision to become certified by a platform owner and produce applications …

The paper analyzes the strategies of software firms that have entered the open source (OS) field. The notion of the OS … software firms shows that firms have adapted to an environment dominated by incumbent standards by combining the offering of … proprietary and OS software under different licensing schemes, thus choosing a hybrid business model. The paper examines the …

effective development process in one such environment---the Internet software industry. Using data on 29 completed development …

software development teams. The analysis reveals that expertise coordination shows a strong relationship with team performance …

products like software, development can continue over the entire product life cycle. For managers of these products the … to product development decisions and product development decisions to software volatility. The model is evaluated using a … software products. In Stage 1 we find that higher environmental volatility leads to greater use of process technology and …

Code reuse is a form of knowledge reuse in software development that is fundamental to innovation in many fields …. However, to date there has been no systematic investigation of code reuse in open source software projects. This study uses … quantitative and qualitative data gathered from a sample of six open source software projects to explore two sets of research …

This study examines whether individuals, groups, and organizational units learn from experience in software development … manufacturing and service industries, it is not clear whether learning curves also apply to knowledge work like software development … telecommunications firm, which uses an incremental software development methodology. Using multilevel modeling, we analyze extensive data …

Software contracting is a multi-faceted issue that involves legal, economic, managerial and technological … considerations. To better understand the economic aspect of software contracting, this paper provides a summary review of software … software contracting. In the model an outside contractor is hired to develop a software system over multiple periods. Due to …

Custom software development projects have special informational attributes that have challenged managers for many years …. Furthermore, in a custom project, market prices for software are not helpful in solving either the valuation or the cost problems …. In this paper we analyze the unique nature of the software development agreements that can be reached between the user …