A Trend Analysis of Software Business Research

International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB), one of the first software-intensive business specific conference series, was founded in 2010 and during the last decade, it has each year hosted tens of studies addressing various aspects of doing business with software products and services. As the conference has remained rather similar, it acts as a showcase on recent development trends in software-intensive business research. This short study uses all documents (n = 249) published in ICSOB conferences from 2010 to 2019 as a material for a trend analysis of the field. The metadata of all documents were gathered from Scopus and co-word bibliometric analysis was used to illustrate temporal clusters of research. In addition, the paper illustrate most active institutions and authors in the field.