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Software Business

9th International Conference, ICSOB 2018, Tallinn, Estonia, June 11–12, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP, volume 336)

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

Conference proceedings info: ICSOB 2018.

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Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Software Ecosystems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Individual People as Champions in Building an Emerging Software Ecosystem

      • Katariina Yrjönkoski, Marko Seppänen, Sami Hyrynsalmi
      Pages 3-9
    3. Modeling Support for Strategic API Planning and Analysis

      • Jennifer Horkoff, Juho Lindman, Imed Hammouda, Eric Knauss, Jamel Debbiche, Martina Freiholtz et al.
      Pages 10-26
    4. Software Ecosystem Health of Cryptocurrencies

      • Matthijs Berkhout, Fons van den Brink, Mart van Zwienen, Paul van Vulpen, Slinger Jansen
      Pages 27-42
    5. Benchmarking Privacy Policies in the Mobile Application Ecosystem

      • Sharif Adel Kandil, Micha van den Akker, Koen van Baarsen, Slinger Jansen, Paul van Vulpen
      Pages 43-55
    6. Artifact Compatibility for Enabling Collaboration in the Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem

      • Yuliyan V. Maksimov, Samuel A. Fricker, Kurt Tutschku
      Pages 56-71
  3. Software Product Management and Business Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Continuous Software Portfolio Performance Management

      • Paul van Vulpen, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Slinger Jansen, Garm Lucassen
      Pages 75-89
    3. Exploring Business Model Changes in Software-as-a-Service Firms

      • Eetu Luoma, Gabriella Laatikainen, Oleksiy Mazhelis
      Pages 108-124
  4. Software Start-ups

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. Opportunity Exploitation in Software Startups. A Human Capital View

      • Pertti Seppänen, Kari Liukkunen, Markku Oivo
      Pages 142-156
    3. Changing and Pivoting the Business Model in Software Startups

      • João M. Fernandes, Paulo Afonso
      Pages 157-171
    4. From MVPs to Pivots: A Hypothesis-Driven Journey of Two Software Startups

      • Dron Khanna, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Xiaofeng Wang
      Pages 172-186
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 187-187

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2018, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in June 2018. This year the conference theme was “How Digitalization Impacts Software Business” and focused on digitalization and its impact on the speed of business models and business modeling and the realization of these business models.

The 11 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: software ecosystems; software product management and business models; and software start-ups.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden

    Krzysztof Wnuk

  • Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Sjaak Brinkkemper

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