CIO herds and user gangs in the adoption of open source software

Francesc Miralles, Sandra Sieber, Josep Valor

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Open Source Software (OSS) has received wide attention from the research community, analyzing both the innovation process of software development by distributed and unrelated teams, and the market dynamics at play between free" and proprietary software. Up until now, OSS adoption has been irregular, although it seems to be breaking the dominance of existing players in some market segments. In this paper, we contend that due to the particularities of its development process, traditional ways of explaining IT adoption -rational decision making, technology diffusion models, and the psychology of the decision maker-are insufficient to explain the case of OSS diffusion. We believe that the existence of a strong and diffused development community leads to a new role of the user community, as both are intertwined. In addition, new concerns for social corporate responsibility and welfare create a new context, in which user gangs" may exert some degrees of pressure on the IT decision maker. Through the analysis of some significant cases we depict under which conditions significant OSS adoption may unfold, showing that in two of the cases studied user gangs play a significant role. The resulting preliminary framework will inform future work, in which we aim at validating the emerging insights gained in this research.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojadaProceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005
EstadoPublicada - 2005
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Evento13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005 - Regensburg, Alemania
Duración: 26 may 200528 may 2005

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NombreProceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Conferencia

Conferencia13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005
País/TerritorioAlemania
CiudadRegensburg
Período26/05/0528/05/05

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