An organizational institutionalization model of software product line engineering

A software product line is a growing software engineering discipline to achieve extraordinary gains in the development performance. The whole institutionalization of new development methodology involves organizational culture and a superior’s leadership to motivate employees’ to acquire knowledge, skills, and motivations to effectively initiate, launch, and manage SPLs. This is the first study to show organizational culture or leadership type and clearly identify how this organizational culture or leadership type influences software product line performance through organizational commitment. The propositions that this study presents provide conceptual insights for managers who seek to organizational culture or leadership type which increases software product line performance.