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

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Miralles, Francesc ^a   Sieber, Sandra ^b   Valor, Josep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

CIO herding; IT adoption; Open Source Software; User communities

Indexed keywords

CIO HERDING; CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY; DECISION MAKERS; DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; INNOVATION PROCESS; IT ADOPTION; MARKET DYNAMICS; MARKET SEGMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE; RATIONAL DECISION MAKING; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION MODELS; USER COMMUNITIES;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871009642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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