The stability of factor shares has long been considered one of the “stylized facts” of macroeconomics. However, the relationship between cross-country factor shares and economic development is dependent on how factor shares are measured. Most factor share studies acknowledge only two factors of production: total capital and total labor. The failure to acknowledge more than two factors yields mi...

Software development is inherently a knowledge-intensive and distributed cognitive activity. From this perspective, one of the major issues in user-centered software development tools is to provide support for knowledge collaboration between the developer and the external knowledge resources, which include both information in repositories and knowledgeable peers. This paper describes two protot...

The strength of the emotional feeling implicit in the commonly used phrase “selecting the next killer app” powerfully summarizes the importance of new product idea selection. People in Silicon Valley often use this phrase to describe their enthusiastic pursuits of new successful software application ideas. Selecting new product ideas is important not only to high-tech firms but also to many oth...

Background Risks associated with a software project have the potential to affect all stakeholders. Today much software makes use of off-the-shelf (OTS) components. A better understanding of OTS-derived software risks will help to define responsibilities for these risks, and also to avoid them. Aim Our objective is to identify, classify and compare risks of OTS-based software projects from both ...

Permanent changes, short product life cycles and increasing market pressure force companies to an accelerated cycle of product and service innovation. Organisations are facing the challenge to manage the knowledge and skills of their workforce in the context of human resource development. It is needed to prevent the crucial lose of knowledge for competitive advantage. Therefore organisations in...

The goal of this study was to explore and understand the definition of technical debt. Technical debt refers to situation in a software development, where shortcuts or workarounds are taken in technical decision. However, the original definition has been applied to other parts of software development and it is currently difficult to define technical debt. We used mapping study process as a rese...

But how do we innovate? How do we get someone to create successful software apps?” These questions came from a delegation that had traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the method behind its success. They were from a part of the world in economic decline: local industries had been disrupted by distant plants that used new technology and more e cient processes. The delegation had come to Californi...

Despite many works on collaborative networked organizations (CNOs), CSCW, groupware, workflow systems and social networks, computer support for virtual teams is still insufficient, especially support for agility, i.e. the capability of virtual team members to rapidly and cost efficiently adapt the way they interact to changes. In this paper, requirements for computer support for agile virtual t...

Managers in high tech industries often face decisions with the trade-off between increasing operating profits now and investing in innovation in order to allow for profits in the future. We report the case of telephony business unit, which currently sees the convergence of traditional telephony with Internet. Literature suggests that in such situations of innovation on the level of the product ...

Evolving the architecture of the software together with the evolution of the design is one of the key areas in maintaining the high quality. In this paper we present a portfolio of indicators addressing a set of three areas of information needs for large software development companies of embedded software. The portfolio is a result of our studies of literature and at Software Center (nine compa...