Under a broad comprehension of Software Engineering, it is preferred the term software life cycle instead of just software production. The reason is that cycle starts at software conception and stops when the software is relegated. Given contemporary companies’ market strategies of focusing on their competitive advantages, most of them have externalized their software production to outsourced s...

Software is vital for the success of most firms today. However, software crises are common and examples abound of situations where the competitiveness of firms has been threatened by failures in the production and/or deployment of software. In addition, there is a paucity of published research about the adoption of software management practices within firms. This paper describes an empirical st...

The ability to develop and deploy high-quality software at a high speed gets increasing relevance for the competitiveness of car manufacturers. Agile practices have shown benefits such as faster time to market in several application domains. Therefore, it seems to be promising to carefully adopt agile practices also in the automotive domain. This article presents findings from an interview-base...

The knowledge-intensiveness of economy today is one of the reasons for researchers to consider that the foundation of organizational competitiveness has shifted from physical and material resources to intangible resources, and knowledge in particular [1]. The adoption of Knowledge Management (KM) as company practice was driven by large organizations and consulting companies world-wide. The comp...

The disclosure of information on sustainability by energy companies is a guarantee increasing their competitiveness in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 and the post-war recovery Ukrainian sector. This paper aims to evaluate transparency reporting Ukraine connect level such competitiveness. study used Transparency Index analyze 50 Ukraine, largest taxpayers. It based SDG, CSR, ESG criter...

In this paper, we compare the competitiveness between clustered and dispersed Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesian food processing industry. This study was driven by the important role of SMEs in Indonesian food processing industry for helping low income people access the low price foods. Furthermore, as Indonesian Government implements policy that support clustered SMEs, it could be e...

Technology management is important to both companies and nations. Recently, economic competitiveness for both depends on technological prowess. Patents are a representative index of technological competitiveness because a patent document has diverse and detailed information about developed technologies. Hence, patent analysis is an efficient tool for technology management activities such as R&D...