Manufacturers customarily provide only a few product variants to address the average needs of users in the major segments of markets they serve. When user needs are highly heterogeneous, this approach leaves many seriously dissatisfied. One solution is to enable users to modify products on their...

The emergence of large-scale digital platforms such as Facebook, Google Play and Apple App Store around 2008 has created opportunities for independent entrepreneurs to offer their self-developed software applications (“apps”) to large groups of platform users. The development and release of...

This paper aims to analyze the characteristics of the career paths of software engineers and draws relevant policy implications. Although the career path for software engineers is known to be very short, the software industry suffers from a shortage of highly qualified software engineers, who...