Introduction -- Background: OSS development and acquisitions -- Qualitative study: How does the involvement of firms in OSS matter in the pre-acquisition phase? -- Quantitative study: The role of OSS for likelihood and timing of acquisitions -- Mixed-methods study: The effect of acquisitions on...

The Social Capital View -- Open Source Software and Firm Involvement -- Private-Collective Innovation and Open Source Software: Longitudinal Insights from Linux Kernel Development -- Social Capital Effect on Value Contribution - Revealing Differences between Voluntary and Firm-Sponsored Open...

Optimization Software Class Libraries -- Distribution, Cooperation, and Hybridization for Combinatorial Optimization -- A Framework for Local Search Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Hotframe: A Heuristic Optimization Framework -- Writing Local Search Algorithms Using...

Chapter 1. Interview with Manfred Broy and Walter Brenner About Design Thinking and Requirements Engineering -- Chapter 2. Combining Design Thinking and Software Requirements Engineering to Create Human-centered Software-intensive Systems -- Chapter 3. From Design Thinking in Software...

1. Introduction -- 2. Profit from Openness: A Critique of a New Business Model -- 3. Profiting from Free and Open Source Software -- 4.Profiting from Open Access Publishing -- 5. Profiting from Open Audiovisual Content -- 6. Profiting from Massive Open Online Courses. - 7. Conclusions and...

Introduction: Riding the Waves of Outsourcing Change in the Era of Digital Transformation -- Part I: Emergent Sourcing Challenges -- Part II: Mastering Innovation Through Outsourcing -- Part III: Leveraging the Value of Offshoring -- Part IV: Adopting and Innovating Cloud Services -- Part V:...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Software has changed the rules of the game. The world talks about the digitalization in industry and society - how the focus has shifted from producing tangible things towards software and services. This trend started many years ago, but is now...

Ch1. A fundamental dilemma: efficiency versus creativity -- Ch2. Analytical framework and the research design: Innovation pattern and evolution of industry -- Ch3. The origins of the game software business in Japan: the movement till 1970’s -- Ch4. Creating New Demand: the start-up of the new...

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book examines the significance of networks among the firms operative in the contemporary Russian software industry in the St. Petersburg region.

Part I: Organizational Politics -- 1 Fundamental Concepts -- 2 Perspectives on Power -- 3 Latent Conflict -- 4 Open Conflict -- Part II: Software Processes -- 5 Process Design -- 6 Bureaucratic Control -- 7 Cultural Control -- Part III: Political Action -- 8 Politics at Work -- 9 Political...