Publications

A list of publications of the Software Business Laboratory is maintained on this page. It is currently under construction.

2009

Frühwirth, C.
On business-driven IT security managament and mismatches between security requirements in firms, industry standards and research work
Accepted for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES), Oulu, Finland, June 15-17, 2009.

Junna, O.
Acquisitions of divested assets in the US software industry: Seller distress, economic environemnt and acquirer returns
Proceedings of the 9th European Academy of Management Annual Meeting (EURAM), Liverpool, UK, May 11-14, 2009.
Best paper of the track award.

Laamanen, T., Brauer, M. and Junna, O.
Performance of acquirers of divested assets: "Bottom fishers" of the U.S. software industry
Accepted for presentation at the 69th Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), Chicago, IL, August 7-11, 2009.

Laine, M.O.J.
Bibliometric analysis and systematic review of management litrature on virtual communities
Proceedings of the 9th European Academy of Management Annual Meeting (EURAM), Liverpool, UK, May 11-14, 2009.

Laine, M.O.J.
Examining the literature on innovation in virtual communities
Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ECEI), Antwerpen, Belgium, September 10-11, 2009.

Laine, M.O.J.
Virtual communities: A bibliometric analysis
Proceedings of the 42th annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa, HI, January 5-8, 2009.

Laine, M.O.J., Rönkkö, M. and Valtakoski, A.
Software firm business models with virtual communities
Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, CA, August 6-9, 2009.

Peltonen, J., Messerschmitt, D.G. and Laine, M.O.J.
Web business and development opportunities: Learning from community networked services
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Lisbon, Portugal, March 23-26, 2009.

Peltonen, J. and Rönkkö, M.
Is value-added valuable? A study of Finnish business angels
Accepted for presentation at the 69th Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), Chicago, IL, August 7-11, 2009.

Rönkkö, M., Frühwirth, C. and Biffl, S.
Integrating value and utility concepts into a value decomposition model for value-based software engineering
Accepted for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES), Oulu, Finland, June 15-17, 2009.

Rönkkö, M. and Valtakoski, A.
Business models of software firms
Presented at the 42th annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Waikoloa, HI, January 5-8, 2009.

Rönkkö, M. and Valtakoski, A.
Towards a taxonomy of software business models: Evidence from Finland
Accepted for presentation at the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Verona, Italy, July 8-10, 2009.

Selioukova, Y.
Critical success factors in software process improvements: Case of Finnish software companies
Accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP), Orlando, FL, July 13-16, 2009.

Valtakoski, A. and Rönkkö, M.
The concept of business model in management practice and research: bridging the relevance gap
Accepted for presentation at the 69th Academy of Managament Annual Meeting (AOM), Chicago, IL, August 7-11, 2009.

Valtakoski, A. and Walinen, H.
Leveraging business network in complementary product development: A case study from software industry
Proceedings of the 9th European Academy of Management Annual Meeting (EURAM), Liverpool, UK, May 11-14, 2009.

2008

Messerschmitt, D.G., Peltonen, J., Laine, M.O.J. and Oza, N.
Community networked services: Learning from Web 2.0
Technical Report. ISBN: 978-951-22-9734-4. December 30, 2008.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1320947

Mutanen, O.-P. and Rönkkö, M.
Growth challenges of small Finnish software firms – comparing theory and practice
Proceedings of the EBRF 2008, Helsinki-Stockholm, Finland-Sweden, September 22-24, 2008.

Oza, N., Biffl, S., Frühwirth, C. and Selioukova, S.
Reducing the risk of misalignment between software process improvement initiatives and stakeholder values
EuroSPI 2008.

Peltonen, J., Rönkkö, M. and Oza, N.
A resource-based analysis of inter-organizational software reuse
Proceedings of the 5th annual International New Exploratory Technologies Conference (NEXT), Turku, Finland, August 20-22, 2008. pp. 171-190.

Pentikäinen, P., Rönkkö, M. and Peltonen, J.
On competitive advantage and software development processes
Proceedings of the 5th annual International New Exploratory Technologies Conference (NEXT), Turku, Finland, August 20-22, 2008. pp. 81-98.

Romeo, T.V., Mäkelä, M.M., Sørensen, O.J. and Rönkkö, M.
Controlling theoretical and coverage biases in the design of theory-building research
Forthcoming in International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal.

Rönkkö, M., Järvi, A. and Mäkelä, M.M.
Measuring and comparing the adoption of software process practices in the software product industry
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process, Leipzig, Germany, May 10-11, 2008. pp. 407-419.

Rönkkö, M., Kantola, J. and Valtakoski, A.
Analyzing business models with self-organizing maps – Results from a aational survey
Proceedings of the 5th annual International New Exploratory Technologies Conference (NEXT), Turku, Finland, August 20-22, 2008. pp. 157-170.

Rönkkö, M. and Mäkelä, M.M.
Asymmetries of knowledge between engineering and marketing in software product development
Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Galway, Ireland, June 9-11, 2008.

Rönkkö, M. and Mäkelä, M.M.
Contingency effects of strategy on software product development capabilities Presented at the 68th Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM), Anaheim, CA, August 8-13, 2008.

Touru, A.-M. and Rönkkö, M.
Internationalization challenges of small Finnish software firms – Comparing theory and practice
Proceedings of the EBRF 2008, Helsinki-Stockholm, Finland-Sweden, September 22-24, 2008.

2007

Oza, N.
Traceability in qualitative research
IRIS 30, Tampere, Finland, August 11-14, 2007.

Oza, N.
Critical success factors in managing offshore software outsourcing relationships
In Palvia, P., Palvia, S. and Harris, A.L. (Eds.): Managing Global Information Technology: Strategies and Challenges. Marietta, GA: Ivy League Publishing. pp. 407-433.

Oza, N.
How technology vendors can sustain currency appreciation?
December 10-11, 2007.

Oza, N. and Peltonen, J.
Vendor selection in offshore IT outsourcing
International Smart-sourcing Conference on Software Outsourcing, Atlantic City, NJ, September 6-7, 2007.

Rönkkö, M., Kärkkäinen, M. and Holmström, J.
Benefits of an item-centric enterprise-data model in logistics services: A case study
Computers in Industry, 58(8-9): 814-822.

Rönkkö, M., Eloranta, E., Mustaniemi, H., Mutanen, O.-P. and Kontio, J.
Finnish software product business: Results of the national software industry survey 2007
Espoo, Finland: Teknillinen korkeakoulu, 2007. 111 pages.

Valtakoski, A.
Defining service in software business
IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Philadelphia, PA, August 27-29, 2007.

2006

Kontio, J. and Ahokas, M.
Engineering software and software business models
Nokia-TKK Research Seminar, Helsinki, Finland, May 23, 2006.

Kontio, J., Warsta, J., Mäkelä, M.M., Ahokas, M., Tyrväinen, P. and Pöyry, P.
Software business education for software engineers: Towards an integrated curriculum
19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET), Turtle Bay, HI, August 19-21, 2006.

Lassila, A.
Offering ERP solutions as online services
2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Setubal, Portugal, 2006.

Lassila, A.
Taking a service-oriented perspective on software business: How to move from product business to online service business
IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet, 2006. 4(1): 70-82.

Lassila, A., Jokinen, J.-P., Nylund, J., Huurinainen, P., Maula, M. and Kontio, J.
Finnish software product business: Results from the national software industry survey 2006
Espoo, Finland: Centre of Expertise for Software Product Business, 2006. 115 pages.

Lassila, A.
Offering software as a service: Case study of system integrators
European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Göteborg, Sweden, June 12-14, 2006.

Lassila, A.
Mobile security as a service
Mobility Roundtable 2006, Helsinki, Finland, June 1-2, 2006. Helsinki School of Economics.

Lassila, A. and Pöyry, P.
Taking a service-centered view on e-learning
CELDA 2006 Conference, Barcelona, Spain, December 8-10, 2006.

Oza, N.
Game theory perspectives on client-vendor relationships in offshore software outsourcing
International Conference on Software Engineering: Economics Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER), Shanghai, China, May 2006.

Oza, N. and Ahokas, M.
Evidence based guidelines for managing offshore relationships
5th International Conference on Software Outsourcing, Los Angeles, CA, September 21-23, 2006. Ivy League Publishing.

Oza, N., Hall, T., Rainer, A.W. and Grey, S.
Trust in software outsourcing relationships: An empirical investigation of Indian software companies
Information and Software Technology (IST), 2006.

Oza, N. and Mäkelä, M.M.
Understanding trust in offshore software development outsourcing relationships
International Association for Management of Technology Conference (IAMOT), Beijing, China, May 2006.

Oza, N. and Mäkelä, M.M.
The culture-based challenges in offshore software outsourcing
International Association for Management of Technology Conference (IAMOT), Beijing, China, May 2006.

Pöyry, P.
Sharing knowledge in virtual cooperation
Kasvatustieteen päivät 2006, Oulu, Finland, November 23-24, 2006. Suomen kasvatustieteellinen seura.

Rönkkö, M. and Pöyry, P.
Special characteristics of software and software markets - Implications for managing software business
32nd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Kroatia, August 29-September 1, 2006. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 291-299.