Limitations of the study and suggestions for future research

8. CONCLUSION

8.3 Limitations of the study and suggestions for future research

Since the sample consists of software developers within Southern Finland’s area, findings may not be generalizable to other industries or geographical contexts. Qualitative research approach leads to limitations in comparing or finding similarities in the different sectors. Results are de-scribing rather than explanatory or exploratory.

Based on the findings of this study, it could be interesting to further study topics related to Justice theme and their relationships between IT freelancers from different backgrounds such as age, time spent in the IT industry, family circumstances, global or Finnish market experi-ences and so forth.

Furthermore, the same sample group could be followed as longitudinal research to find out whether they stayed as entrepreneurs, moved towards growth entrepreneurship by hiring em-ployees or are part of professional firms, or transferred backwards into standard emem-ployees. It

would be interesting to compare the results of this study to different eras, for example, during the recession to examine whether informants kept working as programmers even in the absence of high rewards. In the future studies, study among IT freelancers should include their opinion of their working hours now as an entrepreneur compared to previous standard employment, whilst many journals related to disadvantages of entrepreneurship claim that entrepreneurs are working more and longer than standard employees.

It would be interesting to investigate whether freelancers are valuing a certain hierarchy of needs higher in different economic cycles such as economic depression. Reasons of self-em-ployment in the software industry could be compared to the unemself-em-ployment push theory and prosperity pull theory and include parental background in the questions asked from informants.

In addition, differences between women software developers and men should be investigated by collecting broader data.

Another point of view for future studies includes independent IT-contractors or software devel-opers and their perception of bureaucracy. Based on this study, bureaucracy refers to size of the company, micromanagement, and internal processes. It could be interesting to compare com-panies where software developers do not feel negative bureaucracy and a counterpart where this feeling exist and find a reason behind it and how it affects to the motivation or even the revenue of the company.

Finally, future research could explore whether openness of salaries is affecting to entrepreneur-ship motives. After reviewing literature, I discovered that there might be an undiscovered con-nection between software developers’ intention to enter self-employment; the relationship of Finnish Incomes Register, public’s opinions of software entrepreneurs’ salaries, and reason to change career direction from employee to entrepreneur. It should be noted how Finnish law allows individuals’ to find out their colleagues’ or managers’ annual earnings, and this left me wondering whether these freelancers knew what could be the potential earning as senior soft-ware developer if they would stayed in the company (comparison to senior colleague’s salary) or if they would establish their own consulting company (comparison to owner’s salary). Ob-viously, one cannot claim the existence of this thought because it is not researched in this study’s interviews. Financial background before entering to self-employment is one of the fac-tors which should be included in the next study to collect data of their risk appetite.

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