Results of the German Software Industry Survey 2013

When is it Better to Have No Role Models? Evidence from the Internationalization of Companies in the German Software Industry

The internationalization of a company is a complex endeavor. However, because of the special characteristics of the software industry, the internationalization of a software company can be particularly critical to its success. This study is among the first to employ institutional theory to analyze a software company’s degree of internationalization. An analysis based on the survey of 306 German...

Results of the German Software Industry Survey 2012

Service-Oriented Architecture Paradigm: Major Trend or Hype for the German Banking Industry?

Although Service-orientation is based on known concepts like autonomy and loose coupling of software components, the standardization of Web Service technologies has led to a rising adaptation of serviceorientation in the research community as well as in the software industry over the past years. While Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are widely accepted as a new enterprise systems architect...

A Nonlinear Model of Economic Data Related to the German Automobile Industry

Prediction of economic variables is a basic component not only for economic models, but also for many business decisions. But it is difficult to produce accurate predictions in times of economic crises, which cause nonlinear effects in the data. Such evidence appeared in the German automobile industry as a consequence of the financial crisis in 2008/09, which influenced exchange rates and a...

Is Perceived Domestic Market Attractiveness a Growth Impediment? Evidence from the German Software Industry

The German software industry is vital to the German economy's success. However, it has missed some current trends where software companies lack broader international activity. Existing models that take domestic market size into account can only partially explain the different degrees of internationalized companies between different countries. In addition, they are unable to explain individual c...