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Software Business

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

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP, volume 304)

Conference series link(s): ICSOB: International Conference on Software Business

Conference proceedings info: ICSOB 2017.

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Software Startups and Platform Governance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. How Are Product Ideas Validated?

      • Pertti Seppänen, Nirnaya Tripathi, Markku Oivo, Kari Liukkunen
      Pages 3-17
    3. Governing Platforms in the Internet of Things

      • Maximilian Schreieck, Christoph Hakes, Manuel Wiesche, Helmut Krcmar
      Pages 32-46
  3. Software Business Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Pricing of Data Products in Data Marketplaces

      • Samuel A. Fricker, Yuliyan V. Maksimov
      Pages 49-66
    3. Knitting Company Performance and Board Interlocks

      • Sami Hyrynsalmi, Arho Suominen, Jukka Ruohonen, Marko Seppänen, Antero Järvi
      Pages 67-81
    4. Business Model Exploration for Software Defined Networks

      • Yudi Xu, Slinger Jansen, Xuesong Gao, Sergio España, Dong Zhang
      Pages 99-112
  4. Software Ecosystems and App Stores

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. How Do Software Ecosystems Co-Evolve?

      • Jose Teixeira, Sami Hyrynsalmi
      Pages 115-130
    3. Health Measurement of Data-Scarce Software Ecosystems: A Case Study of Apple’s ResearchKit

      • Paul van Vulpen, Abel Menkveld, Slinger Jansen
      Pages 131-145
    4. Coopetition of Software Firms in Open Source Software Ecosystems

      • Anh Nguyen Duc, Daniela S. Cruzes, Geir K. Hanssen, Terje Snarby, Pekka Abrahamsson
      Pages 146-160
    5. Mobile Software Security Threats in the Software Ecosystem, a Call to Arms

      • Andrey Krupskiy, Remmelt Blessinga, Jelmer Scholte, Slinger Jansen
      Pages 161-175
  5. Short Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
    2. Experimentation that Matters: A Multi-case Study on the Challenges with A/B Testing

      • Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch, Aleksander Fabijan
      Pages 179-185
    3. Why Do Users Install and Delete Apps? A Survey Study

      • Selim Ickin, Kai Petersen, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta
      Pages 186-191
    4. Towards Understanding Startup Product Development as Effectual Entrepreneurial Behaviors

      • Anh Nguven Duc, Yngve Dahle, Martin Steinert, Pekka Abrahamsson
      Pages 199-204

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About this book

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 30 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: software startups and platform governance; software business development; software ecosystems and App stores. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Arto Ojala

  • Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

    Helena Holmström Olsson

  • University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Karl Werder

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