Firm-specificity and organizational learning-related scale on investment in internal human capital for open source software adoption

SIGMIS CPR 2008 - Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference: Refilling the Pipeline: Meeting the Renewed Demand for Information Technology Workers

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 22-29

  Li, Yan ^a   Tan, Chuan Hoo ^b   Teo, Hock Hai ^b  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Organizational learning; OSS human capital; OSS investment

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITALS; IT PROFESSIONAL; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; OSS HUMAN CAPITAL; SURVEY DATA;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INVESTMENTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; OPEN SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77952253224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1355238.1355244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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