Dr. Markus Mäkelä

Publications

This site lists recent publications and presentations and works-in-process of mine.

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • Mäkelä, Markus, Nilay V. Oza, and Jyrki Kontio. 2007. Dynamic Capabilities in the Software Process. Forthcoming at International Journal of Information Technology and Management.
  • Ruokolainen, Jari and Markus Mäkelä. 2007. Constructing a Domain Model for Building Customer References in Start-up Technology Companies: A Case Example from Software Business. Forthcoming at Journal of Engineering and Technology Management.
  • Ruokolainen, Jari and Markus Mäkelä. 2007. Employing the First Customer Reference to Support the Marketing of Software Products: An Analysis Based on Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence. Submitted to Industrial Marketing Management.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Markku V. J. Maula. 2006. Commitment of Venture Capital Investors in Cross-Border Syndication Networks. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 30(2): 273-298.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Markku V. J. Maula. 2007. Cross-border venture capitalists' support for the internationalization of new software ventures. In: Bart Clarysse, Juan Roure, and Tom Schamp (eds.), Entrepreneurship and the Financial Community: Starting Up and Growing New Businesses, pp. 102-119. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Romeo V. Turcan. 2007. Building Grounded Theory in Entrepreneurship Research. In: Helle Neergaard and John Parm Ulhoi (eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Markku V. J. Maula. 2007. Attracting Cross-border Venture Capital: The Role of a Local Investor. Under third round review at Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.
  • Tuominen, Aulis, Markus Mäkelä, Timo Kerminen, Jussi Nissilä, Ilkka Tuokko, Juha Lempinen, Marjaana Sirén, and Pasi Hirvonen (Eds.). 2006. New Exploratory Technologies. Turku, Finland: Turku Center for Computer Science.
  • Ruokolainen, Jari and Markus Mäkelä. 2006. Employing the First Customer Reference to Support the Marketing of Software Products: An Analysis Based on Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence. Paper presented at the 22nd Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group Conference, Milan, Italy, September 7-9.
  • Nilay V. Oza and Markus Mäkelä. 2006. Understanding Trust in Offshore Software Development Collaborations. Proceedings of the IAMOT 15th International Conference on Management of Technology, May 24, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
  • Nilay V. Oza and Markus Mäkelä. 2006. Culture-based Challenges in Offshore Software Development Outsourcing Relationships: Results of an Empirical Study. Proceedings of the IAMOT 15th International Conference on Management of Technology, May 24, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
  • Kontio, Jyrki, Juhani Warsta, Markus Mäkelä, Mika Ahokas, Pasi Tyrväinen, and Päivi Pöyry. 2006. Software Business Education for Software Engineers: Towards an Integrated Curriculum.” Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET), Turtle Bay, HI., April 19-21.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Markku V. J. Maula. 2005. Cross-border Venture Capital and New Venture Internationalization: An Isomorphism Perspective. Venture Capital 7(3): 227-257.
  • Kuitunen, Hannu, Jani-Pekka Jokinen, Aki Lassila, Markus Mäkelä, Petru Huurinainen, Markku Maula, Mika Ahokas, Jyrki Kontio. 2005. Finnish Software Product Business: Results from the National Software Industry Survey 2005. Center of Expertise in Software Product Business, Espoo, Finland. 104 pages.
  • Ruokolainen, Jari and Markus Mäkelä. 2005. How to Build the First Customer Reference to Support the Growth of a Start-Up Software Technology Company: A Longitudinal Case Study in the Business-to-business Market in Thailand. Proceedings of the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group Conference on Building Social Capital in Networks, Phuket, Thailand, December 11-14.
  • Ahokas, Mika, Jyrki Kontio, Markus Mäkelä, Päivi Pöyry, and Aki Lassila. 2005. Effects of Software Engineering Practices on the Scalability of Firms’ Software Development Output. Proceedings of the 4th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE), Noosa Heads, Australia, November 17-18.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Olli-Pekka Mutanen. 2005. Research in Software Business: Implications of the Special Qualities of Software as a Good. Proceedings of the IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, September 11-14.
  • Mutanen, Olli-Pekka and Markus Mäkelä. 2005. On the Economic Properties of Software and Implications for Software Business. Paper presented at the INFORMS Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA., November 12-16.
  • Kontio, Jyrki, Jani-Pekka Jokinen, Markus Mäkelä, and Virve Leino. 2005. Current Practices and Research Opportunities in Software Business Models. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research, St. Louis, MO., May 15.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2005. Dynamic Capabilities in Software Development: Outline of an Untold Story. Paper presented at the IAMOT 14th International Conference on Management of Technology, Vienna, Austria, May 22-26, 2005.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2005. Software Business: Position as a Field of Research and Avenues for Scholarly Contributions. Paper presented at the IAMOT 14th International Conference on Management of Technology, Vienna, Austria, May 22-26, 2005.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Romeo V. Turcan. 2005. Inductive Entrepreneurship Research. Presented at the 2005 Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 2-4, 2005.
  • Turcan, Romeo V. and Markus Mäkelä. 2005. International Entrepreneurship and the Resource-Based View of the Firm. Abstract published in: Zahra, Shaker A. et al. (eds.) Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Wellesley, MA.: Babson College.
  • Pöyry, Päivi, Mäkelä, Markus, Meriluoto, Jouni, Luoma, Marju. 2005. Practical knowledge and collaboration in engineering. In: Zülch, Gert and Patricia Stock (eds.): Integrating Human Aspects in Production Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Turcan, Romeo V. and Markus Mäkelä. 2005. Theoretical Bias and Sampling Bias: Issues in Designing Theory-building Research in International Entrepreneurship. Submitted to Journal of International Entrepreneurship.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2004. International Venture Capital Finance: Investors Adherence to Reciprocity in Syndication Networks. PrePrint Series, Software Business and Engineering Institute, Helsinki University of Technology.
  • Jokinen, Jani-Pekka, Juhana Hietala, Markus Mäkelä, Petru Huurinainen, Markku Maula, Jyrki Kontio, and Erkko Autio. 2004. Finnish Software Product Business: Results from the National Software Industry Survey 2004. Research Report, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. 75 pages.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Markku V. J. Maula. 2004. Foreign Venture Capitalists' Institutionalizing Effects on the Internationalization of Entrepreneurial Ventures. Paper presented at the 2004 Academy of International Business Meeting, Stockholm. Winner of the 2004 Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar (http://aib.msu.edu/awards_haynes.asp) of the Academy of International Business and the Eldridge Haynes Memorial Trust of Business International. (Press release in Finnish, PDF.)
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2004. Network Building, Challenges, and Motivations to Syndicate in the Venture Capital Industry. PrePrint (Working Paper) Series, Software Business and Engineering Institute, Helsinki University of Technology.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Markku V. J. Maula. 2004. The Internationalization of Software Ventures and International Venture Investors. Paper presented at the Managing Growth Research Workshop of the IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, November 12, 2004.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Romeo V. Turcan. 2004. Building Theory from Inductive Research: An Analysis of the Methodology in the Entrepreneurship Domain. PrePrint (Working Paper) Series, Software Business and Engineering Institute, Helsinki University of Technology.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2004. Venture Capital Decision-making: Distance Determinants. PrePrint (Working Paper) Series, Software Business and Engineering Institute, Helsinki University of Technology.
  • Mutanen, Olli-Pekka, Markus Mäkelä, and Olli Hänninen. 2004. Internationalization of Small and Medium Sized Software Product-based Firms: A Comparison of the State-of-the-Art of Research to Current Industry Practice. Paper presented at the eBRC Conference, September 20-22, Tampere, Finland.
  • Turcan, Romeo V., and Markus Mäkelä. 2004. In Search for International Entrepreneurship Behind the Façade of the 21st Century. Paper presented at the Fourth Biennial McGill Conference on International Entrepreneurship, September 17-21, Montreal, Canada.
  • Heikkonen, Matti and Markus Mäkelä. 2004. "Internationalization Models of Software Product Companies." Paper presented at the 6th International Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research, May 24, 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2004. The Grounded Theory Method: Field Work, Analysis, and Reaching Results. PrePrint (Working Paper) Series, Software Business and Engineering Institute, Helsinki University of Technology.
  • Mäkelä Markus, and Markku V. J. Maula. 2004. Interorganizational Commitment of Cross-Border Venture Investors. Paper presented at the Entrepreneurship Research Workshop of the University of Nottingham, Institute for Enterprise and Innovation, June 7-8, presented on June 7, 2004.
  • Turcan, Romeo, Laura Gaillard Giordani, and Markus Mäkelä. 2004. International Entrepreneurship and the Resource-based View of the Firm. Poster presented at the Babson College--Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference 2004, Glasgow, UK.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2004. "Essays on Cross-border Venture Capital: A Grounded Theory Approach." Doctoral dissertation at Helsinki University of Technology, Institute of Strategy and International Business.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Markku V. J. Maula. 2004. Commitment of Foreign Venture Capital Investors in Cross-Border Syndication. Paper presented at the 2004 Academy of International Business Meeting.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2003. Geography and Cultural Distance as Determinants of International Venture Capital Investment. Helsinki University of Technology, Institute of Strategy and International Business. Academy of Management Meeting 2003, International Management Division, Seattle, WA.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2003. Reciprocity and the Balance of Value-Adding Contributions of Venture Capitalists in International Investor Networks. Industrial Engineering and Management Doctoral Conference, November 2003, Espoo, Finland.
  • Mäkelä, Markus and Markku V. J. Maula. 2003. The Role of a Local Investor in the Formation of Cross-border Venture Capital Syndicates. Helsinki University of Technology, Institute of Strategy and International Business. Academy of Management Meeting 2003, Entrepreneurship Division, Seattle, WA.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2004. The Role of Value-Added in the Syndication of Venture Capital Investments. In: Brush, Candida G., Per Davidsson, James O. Fiet, Patricia G. Greene, Richard T. Harrison, Miri Lerner, G. Dale Meyer, Jeffrey E. Sohl, and Andrew L. Zacharakis: Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Wellesley, MA.: Babson College. Paper presented at the Babson College Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Conference 2003, Wellesley, MA.
  • Pöyry, Päivi, Markus Mäkelä, Marju Luoma, and Jouni Meriluoto. 2003. Practical knowledge and collaboration in engineering. Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Human Aspects in Production Management (October 5-9, 2003). Shaker Verlag, Aachen, Germany. Pages 181-187.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2002. Managing Syndication of Venture Capital Investments. 22nd Annual International Conference of the Strategic Management Society, September 21-24, 2002, Paris, France.
  • Maula, Markku V. J. and Markus Mäkelä. 2003. Cross-Border Venture Capital. Chapter for Hyytinen, Ari, and Pajarinen, Mika (Eds.) Financial Systems and Firm Performance: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Helsinki: Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2002. Syndication of Venture Capital: Rationales, Tie Formation, Roles, and Challenges. Research Report, Helsinki University of Technology, Institute of Strategy and International Business.
  • Markus Mäkelä. 2002. Syndication of Venture Capital Investments: Performance of Investor Firms, Practices in Managing the Syndicates, and the Value-Added for Portfolio Companies. Research Report, Helsinki University of Technology, Institute of Strategy and International Business.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2002. How Does Cultural Distance Influence the Success of International Venture Capital Syndicates?. Invited paper presentation at the Entrepreneurship and Growth Strategies Workshop of Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, September, 2002.

Work in Process (A Selection)

  • Kuitunen, Hannu and Markus Mäkelä. 2005. Capabilities and Infrastructure of the Software Product Sector: Identifying Within-industry Clusters through Empirical Research.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2007. Technology-based entrepreneurship in the software industry.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2007. Research Streams in New Product Development and Software Development: Several Interlinkages Warrant Knowledge Exchange and Facilitate Fertile Syntheses.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2006. Nonfinancial Value-added in Venture Capital Investments: Roles of Investor Complementarities and Social Capital in Syndication.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2006. Strategic Business Networks in the Venture Capital Industry: Formation and Management Issues.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2007. Accelerated Software Product Development in International Alliance Networks.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2006. Learning and the Collaborative Development of Dynamic Capabilities in International Networked Software Development.
  • Mäkelä, Markus. 2006. Power and Dependence in International Networks as Drivers of Successful Software Development.

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