Open source adoption and use: A comparative study between groups in the US and India

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 2864-2876

  Verma, Sameer ^a   Jin, Leigh ^a   Negi, Atul ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Innovation adoption; Open source software; Virtual community

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION MECHANISMS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; INNOVATION ADOPTION; INTERNET-BASED APPLICATIONS; MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY; OPEN SOURCES; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SOURCE CODES; USER GROUPS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870009642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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