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Classifying Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software: A Proposal

Authors : Stephen Murphy, Sharon Cox

Published in: Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Staged adoption models are a common feature of information systems (IS) adoption literature, yet these are rarely used in open source software (OSS) adoption studies. In this paper, a staged model for classifying the organizational adoption of OSS is proposed, based upon a critical review of existing staged adoption models and factors identified from OSS adoption literature. Innovations in the proposed model include: defined transition pathways between stages, additional stages and a decomposition of cessation of use into four distinct pathways.

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Title: Classifying Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software: A Proposal
Authors: Stephen Murphy
Sharon Cox
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-39224-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-39225-7

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39225-7_10

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