.- Ethical Challenges in Software Development.

.- Five Darlings to be Killed: Debunking myths about innovation in the software-intensive embedded systems industry.

.- Digital Sovereignty: Affordances in Open Source Projects.

.- The Ethical Landscape in Public Procurement of ICT Systems.

.- Exploring Classification Consistency of Natural Language Requirements Using GPT-4o.

.- Developer Experience and Ecosystem Trust.

.- Unveiling the Skills and Responsibilities of Serverless Practitioners An Empirical Investigation.

.- On the Way to the Best Information System of the Future – Reflections on Scenarios in Favor of Good Technology Development.

.- What Affects Developer Experience in Software Platforms?.

.- Enabling Inter-Organizational Data Sharing: Towards a Method for Assessing Data Assets.

.- Transparency and Trust in AI.

.- Fairness in AI Systems Development: Beyond EU AI Act Compliance.

.- The EU AI Act is a good start but falls short.

.- Professionals' opinions on the use of AI software for HRM.

.- Emotion AI in Workplace Environments: A Case Study.

.- Exploring the Factors that Impact The Half-life of Software.

.- Diversity and Inclusion in Software Business.

.- Exploring Diversity-Driven Power Dynamics in Software Engineering Environments: Insights from a Qualitative Study.

.- Towards sustainable ICT solutions: Analyzing call for tender documents.

.- Exploring Perceptions of Blockchain in Cross-Border Workforce Mobility.

.- Experience of Gender Among Professionals in Finnish IT Companies.

.- Secondary Use of Health Data: Centralized Structure and Information Security Frameworks in Finland.

.- Sustainable ICT.

.- Sustainable ICT Procurement: Data-Driven Decision-Making in B2B Green ICT Adoption.

.- Integrating Sustainability into Scrum Agile Software Development: An Action Research Approach.

.- Optimizing for Sustainability: Product Ops and Software Waste Reduction.

.- Designing for Sustainability when Architecture Standards are involved an industrial Case Study.

.- Challenges in Incorporating Sustainability Practices in the Software Lifecycle.

.- Experimentation and Innovations.

.- Pre-Release Experimentation in Indie GameDevelopment: An Interview Survey.

.- Marketplace for Multi-Party Development of Artificial Intelligence Systems: Perceptions on Value Creation.

.- Data-Limited Continuous Experimentation (dlCE): A Literature Review.

.- The Concept of a Web App to find Educational VR Apps.

.- Tools in Software Ecosystems.

.- How do ML students explain their models and what can we learn from this?.

.- npmSECO: A Tool for Integrating Trust into the Software Ecosystem.

.- Governance Practices for Open Source Foundations in the Healthcare Sector.

.- Adoption of Cloud Platforms Among Independent Software Vendors.

.- Software Startups and Digital Transformation.

.- Technology Change Adoption in Organizations: Drivers, Challenges and Success Enablers.

.- Startup Autonomy.

.- The Use of Generative AI Tools in the Inception Stage of Software Startups.

.- Smart Scaling for Software Startups Through Financial Requirements Prioritization Criteria.

.- Accelerating New Product Development: A Vision on Active Personas.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2024, which took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, during November 18-20, 2024. The special theme of ICSOB 2024 was Ethics, Equity, and Sustainability in Software Business.

The 23 full papers and 13 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Ethical Challenges in Software Development; Developer Experience and Ecosystem Trust; Transparency and Trust in AI; Diversity and Inclusion in Software Business; Sustainable ICT; Experimentation and Innovations; Tools in Software Ecosystems; and Software Startups and Digital Transformation.