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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
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JUNE 2011
VOL 3, NO 2
5.7.3 Market Saturation
3% entrepreneurs perceived that market is ‘highly saturated’, 23% ‘moderately
saturated’, 49% ‘saturated’ and 25% ‘not saturated’. Ten years before there were very
few software developing firms in the market. The untapped profit margin has attracted
investors and in last five years, many new firms entered the market that has led to
moderate saturation.
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5.7.4 Startup Condition of the Firms
Software industry being a relatively new industry has had much capacity for investors.
2% of entrepreneur perceive that there were very bad condition in the beginning of firm,
10% bad, 35% normal, 37% good, 13% very good and 3% excellent.
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5.8 Growth Variables
5.8.1 Profit, Output and Customer trend
Firm growth is a multi-faceted phenomenon as found through empirical literature, see for
example (Davidsson and Wiklund, 2000; Delmar, 1997; Delmar et al, 2003; Weinzimmer
et al, 1998). Similar holds for software industry. Considering the existing literature a
combinations of variables are analyzed (No. of customers, output, employment and profit
trends). Collected data reveals that there is an increase in no. of customers of 74% firms,
output of 66% firms and profit of 61% firms. It shows the strength and investment
worthiness of the software firms. Few firms can find that there are two or three firms who
lost their customer, output and profit but there employment generation capacity is
increasing.
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7. Conclusion
The trait variables are clustered into ‘6’ main categories; i.e. entrepreneurial, firm,
strategic, exogenous, market condition, growth variables. Over analysis verifies the
expect conclusion that high level of skills in software industry in Pakistan.
Most of the entrepreneurs in software industry have relevant experience before starting
their own firm. It shows that major concentration in the industry is of experienced
entrepreneurs. Majority in sample entrepreneurs agree that education has strong impact
on growth. Most of entrepreneurs are willing to grow although they are in a stiff
competition. Many entrepreneurs are satisfied with current business state but market
barriers limit firm growth.
Most of the software firms are subsidiary to international firms and are formed under the
company’s ordinance 1984. There are many firms that were formed from 2000 to 2010.
Attractive aspects of entry are market profit and independence in control. Product line
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