Software Business: 8th International Conference, ICSOB 2017, Essen, Germany, June 12-13, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Book 304)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8 th 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. Front Matter ....Pages I-X Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 How Are Product Ideas Validated? (Pertti Seppänen, Nirnaya Tripathi, Markku Oivo, Kari Liukkunen)....Pages 3-17 Acquisitions and Growth of Software Startups: The Dual Role of Venture Capital as a Success Factor (Marcus Wagner)....Pages 18-31 Governing Platforms in the Internet of Things (Maximilian Schreieck, Christoph Hakes, Manuel Wiesche, Helmut Krcmar)....Pages 32-46 Front Matter ....Pages 47-47 Pricing of Data Products in Data Marketplaces (Samuel A. Fricker, Yuliyan V. Maksimov)....Pages 49-66 Knitting Company Performance and Board Interlocks (Sami Hyrynsalmi, Arho Suominen, Jukka Ruohonen, Marko Seppänen, Antero Järvi)....Pages 67-81 Modeling Strategic Complementarity and Synergistic Value Creation in Coopetitive Relationships (Vik Pant, Eric Yu)....Pages 82-98 Business Model Exploration for Software Defined Networks (Yudi Xu, Slinger Jansen, Xuesong Gao, Sergio España, Dong Zhang)....Pages 99-112 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 How Do Software Ecosystems Co-Evolve? (Jose Teixeira, Sami Hyrynsalmi)....Pages 115-130 Health Measurement of Data-Scarce Software Ecosystems: A Case Study of Apple’s ResearchKit (Paul van Vulpen, Abel Menkveld, Slinger Jansen)....Pages 131-145 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 Mobile Software Security Threats in the Software Ecosystem, a Call to Arms (Andrey Krupskiy, Remmelt Blessinga, Jelmer Scholte, Slinger Jansen)....Pages 161-175 Front Matter ....Pages 177-177 Experimentation that Matters: A Multi-case Study on the Challenges with A/B Testing (Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch, Aleksander Fabijan)....Pages 179-185 Why Do Users Install and Delete Apps? A Survey Study (Selim Ickin, Kai Petersen, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta)....Pages 186-191 Evolving Software Products, the Design of a Water-Related Modeling Software Ecosystem (Konstantinos Manikas)....Pages 192-198 Towards Understanding Startup Product Development as Effectual Entrepreneurial Behaviors (Anh Nguven Duc, Yngve Dahle, Martin Steinert, Pekka Abrahamsson)....Pages 199-204 Should We Be Thanking Microsoft, Apple and Google for Their Contributions to Open Source Software? (Dominique Doorhof, Elizabeth A. Schermerhorn, Slinger Jansen, Sjaak Brinkkemper)....Pages 205-210 Back Matter ....Pages 211-211 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 31 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: software startups and platform governance; software business development; software ecosystems and App stores.