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The Software Industry in Emerging Markets
The software industry represents a unique example of a truly global industry, growing rapidly in both developed and developing countries. This important book provides the first serious study of the growth of the industry in emerging markets, with an excellent discussion of the key cases including India, China and Brazil. Simon Commander is to be congratulated producing such a timely and policy relevant book. Saul Estrin, London Business School, UK This book aims to promote an understanding of the origins and dynamics of the software industry in a number of key emerging markets Brazil, China, India and Israel, and to establish what experiences, if any, are potentially replicable in other prev...
The Software Industry
Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business models to software vendors that comprise cooperation, distribution, pricing and production and industrialization strategies, as well as software as a service and platform concepts. Further aspects including the outsourcing behavior of software vendors and users; providing business software as open source software; selecting software; and the value chains in the software industry are also addressed. Based on a number of expert meetings, it contains numerous case studies and new empirical findings. Target audience of the book are professionals and executives from the software, consulting and IT branches as well as students and scholars of business administration, computer science, business and industrial engineering.
Business Models in the Software Industry
The relevance of software business models has tremendously increased in recent years. Markus Schief explores opportunities to improve the management of these models. Based on a conceptual framework of software business model characteristics, he conducts large empirical studies to examine the current state of business models in the software industry. These data then serve as a foundation for statistical analyses of business models’ impact on firm and M&A performance. Finally, the author develops a software business model management tool.
Professional Empowerment in the Software Industry through Experience-Driven Shared Tacit Knowledge
This book addresses the identification and classification of knowledge acquired through experience that results from engaging in professional activities within the software industry. As a result of this study, the book presents an ontology of such professional activities that require and enable the acquisition of experience and that, in turn, are the basis for tacit knowledge creation. The rationale behind the creation of such an ontology was based on the need to externalize this tacit knowledge and then record such externalizations so that these can be shared and disseminated within and across organizations. The book discusses the very concise manner in which experienced software developmen...
Mergers and Acquisitions in the Software Industry
For mergers and acquisitions in the software industry this book lays the foundation for successful due diligence. Based on methodological foundations, a business model driven approach for due diligence is presented. The key difference between this book and other due diligence books: this book focuses on a business model driven approach, M&A processes, M&A organization and software industry specifics. The book focuses on four goals. First, it focuses on creating a holistic view of acquisition targets using business models. Second, the book defines differences of the software industry to other industries. Third, the book tries to lay the foundation for standardization of due diligence activities. It also analyses the right setup for acquirers to successfully carry out acquisitions. Fourth, it elaborates on typical business models, business ecosystems and partnerships in the software industry. Many examples from real life due diligence activities and many hints make this book a valuable resource for business professionals in mergers and acquisitions in all industries.
Supplier Relationships and Mergers & Acquisitions in the Software Industry
This book has been created to serve students of information systems and computer science to serve as a primer for getting acquainted with key concepts and mechanisms of software supply-chains and mergers and acquisitions. It contains scientific content, best practices as well as street smarts when dealing with these topics.Questions after each chapter allow the reader to see if the content was successfully acquired and can be applied.
