Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Rousseva, Rossitza
Author-Email: rousseva@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Approach for Analysing Capabilities in Latecomer Software Companies
Abstract: Software development activities have been identified as a 'window of 
	 opportunity' for latecomer companies. Notwithstanding the growth of 
	 software development activities in the latecomers, there are single 
	 exceptional cases of companies that have successfully launched their own 
	 products in global software markets. This suggests that most of the 
	 latecomer software companies possess limited technological capabilities. 
	 This point has not been explored systematically in the literature so 
	 far, as the critical literature review reveals. This paper develops an 
	 approach for analysing technological capabilities in latecomer software 
	 industries. It outlines the specifics in analysing technological 
	 capability in latecomer software companies and makes an account of the 
	 array of technical and organisational capabilities associated with 
	 development of software technological capability. The research also 
	 looks at the diverse learning paths pursued by the latecomer companies 
	 in developing software activities. The study improves our understanding 
	 about the complexity in developing software industries in latecomer 
	 context, and the challenges the latecomer companies face in entering and 
	 competing in international markets.      
Classification-JEL: O32, O33, O57
Keywords: technological capabilities, software industry, latecomers
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2007
Number: 035
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2007/wp2007-035.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2007035