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Journal of Systems and Software: Special Issue on Software Business

Software business refers to commercial activities in and around the software industry, aimed at generating income from the delivery of software products and software services. Although the software business shares common features with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it has many inherent features making it a challenging domain for research. In particular, software companies often depend on one another in delivering a unique value proposition to their customers or a unique experience to their users. Moreover, recent developments like the emerging app economy offer a variety of opportunities for entrepreneurs or start-up companies. The 2013 acquisition of the three-year old Finnish mobile game startup Supercell with the total value of 2.2 billion Euros shows that the future of software is not only in utility and but also in entertainment and increasing amount of leisure time available for people worldwide. This will have a profound effect on software business and requires novel business models and new approaches to software product development, as well.

You are invited to submit papers addressing contemporary issues emerging at the intersection of the software and business domains, broadly defined. We invite original, both empirical and theoretical submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Speeding up time-to-market: towards continuous value delivery
• Business models in game and entertainment software
• Business models for software startups
• The relationship between business models and software development
• Software platforms and ecosystems
• App economy
• Software supply networks
• Software as a service
• Global and cultural aspects of software business
• Software business in the future
• Impact of megatrends on software business

Submission Guidelines

All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the journal website at Authors should select "SI:Software Business", from the "Choose Article Type" pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission extended from a previous conference version has to contain at least 30% new material. Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version.

Important Dates

Submission deadline 15 October 2014

Guest Editors

Prof. Kari Smolander
Email: kari.smolander@lut.fi
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Prof. Casper Lassenius
Email: casper.lassenius@aalto.fi
Aalto University, Finland

Prof. Matti Rossi
Email: matti.rossi@aalto.fi
Aalto University, Finland

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