Morgan, Lorraine and Finnegan, Patrick
(2010)
Open innovation in secondary software firms: an exploration of managers' perceptions of open source software.
ACM SIGMIS Database, 49 (1).
pp. 76-95.
ISSN 0095-0033
Abstract
Open source software (OSS) is probably the best
known exemplar of open innovation, with many
practitioner-oriented publications having debated the
merits and drawbacks of OSS in recent years.
Nevertheless, much of the academic research on
OSS has focused on individual rather than
organizational issues. Hence while there is some
understanding of why individual developers and
users opt for particular OSS applications, relatively
little is known about the adoption of OSS as a
software acquisition policy. This paper presents a
study of 13 managers in the secondary software
sector in Europe, and examines how their
perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of OSS
affected their decision to adopt an open source
policy for software in their companies. The study
reveals how their perceptions of the business and
technical benefits and drawbacks of OSS influenced
the technological, organizational, environmental and
individual factors considered within the adoption
process. The findings reveal that many of these
factors are similar to those reported by previous
work on the adoption of innovation, leading us to
conclude that organizational processes for the
adoption of open innovation are reliant on the
practices for closed innovation despite frequently
cited loss of organizational control associated with
open innovation.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Open Source Software; Open
Innovation; Adoption of Innovation; Field Study;
Secondary Software Sector; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
| Item ID: |
6635 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1145/1719051.1719056 |
| Depositing User: |
Lorraine Morgan
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| Date Deposited: |
02 Dec 2015 16:53 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
ACM SIGMIS Database |
| Publisher: |
ACM |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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