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Information and Software Technology 56 (2014) 807–820 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Information and Software Technology journal homepage: www.else /locate/infsof Towards a theoretical framework of SPI success factors for small and medium web companies Muhammad Sulayman a,⇑, Emilia Mendes b, Cathy Urquhart c, Mehwish Riaz a, Ewan Tempero a a Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand b Software Engineering Research Laboratory School of Computing, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden c Centre for Business and Society, MMU Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Context: The context of this research is software process improvement (SPI) success factors for small and Received 11 May 2013 medium Web companies. Received in revised form 8 December 2013 Objective: The primary objective of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework of SPI success factors Accepted 17 February 2014 for small and medium Web companies. Available online 5 March 2014 Method: The theoretical framework presented in this study aggregated the results of three previous research phases by applying principles of theoretical integration and comparative analysis. Those three Keywords: previous phases were all empirical in nature, and comprise: a systematic review of SPI in small and med- Soft