As the information load grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to follow-up new trends in business and management. However, new developments in technologies and markets pose threats and open up opportunities to firms. Especially the software business changes continuously and profoundly. It is...

In Unternehmen wird der Erreichung von Zielen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung eine große Bedeutung beigemessen, um Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und natürliche Umwelt in einem dauerhaften Miteinander in Einklang zu bringen. Mit Nachhaltigkeit einhergehende soziale (sowie ökologische) Ziele können...

This paper analyzes approaches investigating success drivers of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the software industry. The literature review covers a classification of research papers in the generic and software industry specific M&A research discipline. The results accentuate that the impact...

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...