India's software and IT industries. In theory, the Indian software industry 'should not' have developed in the way it did …. This paper shows how Indian software entrepreneurs overcame institutional barriers to development and how they themselves … initiated institutional change, despite Government's restrictive policies. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Indian software …

Der ifo Geschäftsklimaindikator für die Software- und DV-Dienstleistungsbranche hat sich im letzten Quartal 2004 zügig … Auftragsreserven ab. Der Arbeitsmarkt in der deutschen Software- und DV-Dienstleistungsbranche zeigt erste Anzeichen einer Erholung …

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 …

Due to the economic characteristics specific to the software industry, pricing concepts existing in other industries … cannot be transferred without adaptation. Therefore, this article provides an overview of pricing models for software. In … discrimination, price bundling, and dynamic pricing strategies. Furthermore, we refer to recent software delivery models, such as …

This paper analyzes approaches investigating success drivers of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the software industry …. The literature review covers a classification of research papers in the generic and software industry specific M … factors have not been examined so far with respect to the software industry. Building on these insights, the resulting areas …

) provide a hierarchy of activities that allows deriving value chains at different levels of granularity. Since software is a … software industry. The resulting universal and hierarchical software value chain can serve as a sound foundation for further … studies of the software industry. Furthermore, practitioners can tailor the proposed methods to their needs and apply the …

measure hasn’t been applied in software business research. We hence outline its application in other fields by conducting a …,171 software firms in the period 2002-2009. These results indicate an increasing degree of vertical integration in the software …

. However, new developments in technologies and markets pose threats and open up opportunities to firms. Especially the software …