TY - GEN
T1 - Factors influencing ireland's software industry
T2 - IFIP TC8 and TC9/WG8.2 and WG9.4 Working Conference on Information Systems Perspectives and Challenges in the Context of Globalization
AU - Heavin, Ciara
AU - Fitzgerald, Brian
AU - Trauth, Eileen M.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Although the Irish software industry has been in existence since the late 1960s, in the last ten years it has become an enonnous success story and, by some estimates, is the largest exporter of software in the world. In this study, we derive a conceptual framework with which to investigate the emergence and evolution of the Irish software industry. In this framework endogenous factors - national, enterprise and individual - are examined against a backdrop of exogenous factors to explain Ireland's success in the software industry. Two important themes emerged from the study. One is the shift towards a risktaking, entrepreneurial spirit in the software sector that had historically been absent in Ireland. The other is the long-standing government policy of intervention in the software sector, which became increasingly more focused throughout the 1990s. The framework and the lessons from the study should prove useful to researching other countries who are seeking to learn lessons from the Irish experience.
AB - Although the Irish software industry has been in existence since the late 1960s, in the last ten years it has become an enonnous success story and, by some estimates, is the largest exporter of software in the world. In this study, we derive a conceptual framework with which to investigate the emergence and evolution of the Irish software industry. In this framework endogenous factors - national, enterprise and individual - are examined against a backdrop of exogenous factors to explain Ireland's success in the software industry. Two important themes emerged from the study. One is the shift towards a risktaking, entrepreneurial spirit in the software sector that had historically been absent in Ireland. The other is the long-standing government policy of intervention in the software sector, which became increasingly more focused throughout the 1990s. The framework and the lessons from the study should prove useful to researching other countries who are seeking to learn lessons from the Irish experience.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-35695-2
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-35695-2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904304005
SN - 9781475761092
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 235
EP - 252
BT - Organizational Information Systems in the Context of Globalization - IFIP TC8 and TC9/WG8.2 and WG9.4 Working Conf. on Information Systems Perspectives and Challenges in the Context of Globalization
PB - Springer New York LLC
Y2 - 15 June 2003 through 17 June 2003
ER -