Software Business: 9th International Conference, ICSOB 2018, Tallinn, Estonia, June 11–12, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 336)

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. Front Matter ....Pages I-X Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Individual People as Champions in Building an Emerging Software Ecosystem (Katariina Yrjönkoski, Marko Seppänen, Sami Hyrynsalmi)....Pages 3-9 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 Software Ecosystem Health of Cryptocurrencies (Matthijs Berkhout, Fons van den Brink, Mart van Zwienen, Paul van Vulpen, Slinger Jansen)....Pages 27-42 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 Artifact Compatibility for Enabling Collaboration in the Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem (Yuliyan V. Maksimov, Samuel A. Fricker, Kurt Tutschku)....Pages 56-71 Front Matter ....Pages 73-73 Continuous Software Portfolio Performance Management (Paul van Vulpen, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Slinger Jansen, Garm Lucassen)....Pages 75-89 Generating Win-Win Strategies for Software Businesses Under Coopetition: A Strategic Modeling Approach (Vik Pant, Eric Yu)....Pages 90-107 Exploring Business Model Changes in Software-as-a-Service Firms (Eetu Luoma, Gabriella Laatikainen, Oleksiy Mazhelis)....Pages 108-124 Front Matter ....Pages 125-125 Determinants for the Success of Software Startups: Insights from a Regional Cluster (Paulo Afonso, João M. Fernandes)....Pages 127-141 Opportunity Exploitation in Software Startups. A Human Capital View (Pertti Seppänen, Kari Liukkunen, Markku Oivo)....Pages 142-156 Changing and Pivoting the Business Model in Software Startups (João M. Fernandes, Paulo Afonso)....Pages 157-171 From MVPs to Pivots: A Hypothesis-Driven Journey of Two Software Startups (Dron Khanna, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Xiaofeng Wang)....Pages 172-186 Back Matter ....Pages 187-187