A human capital perspective of organizational intention to adopt open source software

Association for Information Systems - 26th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2005: Forever New Frontiers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 137-149

  Li, Yan ^a   Tan, Chuan Hoo ^a   Teo, Hock Hai ^a   Siow, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Human capital; Innovation adoption; Open source software; Resource based view of firms; Switching cost

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITALS; INNOVATION ADOPTION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; SWITCHING COSTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 66549122127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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