Author (Year)

Research Purpose

Data

Country

Variables

Frequency & Period

Chatzoglou (2000) [18]

Rubin (2002) [19]

Arora (2002) [20]

Kshetri (2005) [21]

Storz (2008) [22]

Uzzafer (2010) [23]

Genuchten (2012) [24]

profile of firms

US software industry

contribution of software to economic

major indicators

earnings

financial tool for risk measurement

compound annual growth rate

US

US

India

China, India

Japans

-

US

size, concentration, investment, profitability, risk

spending, quality, process, staffing, employees, revenue, net income

growth of export and domestic revenues, salaries

export, back-office services, annual PC sales

sales, employees, place, year of start-up, type

financial position, cost, VaR, ES

-

Y1980-1994

Y1997-2001

Y1984-1998

Y1996-2004

-

-

-