TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buxmann,Peter
AU  - Diefenbach,Heiner
AU  - Hess,Thomas
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Software Industry: Economic Principles, Strategies, Perspectives 
SN  - 9783642315107
AV  - HD30.2 
U1  - 658.4038 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Business
KW  - Management
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Management information systems
KW  - Software engineering
KW  - E-commerce
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - Software Management
KW  - IT in Business
KW  - Innovation/Technology Management
KW  - e-Commerce/e-business
KW  - Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
N1  - A. Background: How the software industry works -- Economic principles at work in the software industry -- Software vendor strategies -- B. Specific Issues: Outsourcing and offshoring of software development -- Platform concepts -- Software as a Service. 7. Open source software
N2  - Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business models to software vendors that comprise cooperation, distribution, pricing and production and industrialization strategies, as well as software as a service and platform concepts. Further aspects including the outsourcing behavior of software vendors and users; providing business software as open source software; selecting software; and the value chains in the software industry are also addressed. Based on a number of expert meetings, it contains numerous case studies and new empirical findings. Target audience of the book are professionals and executives from the software, consulting and IT branches as well as students and scholars of business administration, computer science, business and industrial engineering
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31510-7
ER  -