Software Industry in China and Patterns of Software Development Based on Knowledge Integration and Diffusion

Software industry in China is one of the fastest growing industries. Three software hypotheses concerning China software industry are advanced on the basis of a careful analysis of data about software industry in China from websites, newspapers, reports, and papers and tests are conducted on the basis of the revenues of the Chinese ITSS industries in 2000 and from 2003 to 2006 and revenues from software sales in China. According to design science research guidelines, this paper not only discusses problems relevant to Chinese software firms, but also offers patterns of software development for China software based on different software firm type´s characters of 12400 software firms in China. The research contributions are as follows: Based on the fact of China software industry, this paper presents 3 eras of software industry in China; Based on the registration capital, numbers of employee, and revenues, this paper points out the problems in Chinese software industry; Following the evaluation, this paper presents the patterns for China software firms.