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Open Source System as Innovation in Organizations: A Managerial Perspective on Its Adoption

South East Asian Journal of Management

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Title Open Source System as Innovation in Organizations: A Managerial Perspective on Its Adoption
 
Creator Noor Ismawati Jaafar; University of Malaya
Sharifah Fazlinda Sheikh Yahya; University of Malaya
 
Subject Strategic
Open Source System; Technology-Organization-Environment; Innovation; Adoption; Malaysia
 
Description This study identifies the factors that have a direct effect on a manager's decision towards Open Source System (OSS) enterprise system adoption in Malaysia. Using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework, the research is initiated by inviting the managers in Malaysian organizations who implemented OSS. A survey was conducted via online OSS social communities and by sending emails to shortlisted public. A total of 124 managers from 124 organizations responded to the survey and the results showed that four out of six factors were found significant in this study. In the technological context, ‘perceived relative advantage’, ‘perceived compatibility and trialability’ and ‘perceived complexity’ factors were found significant in the OSS adoption. In the organizational context, ‘management support, knowledge and expertise’ was identified as the adoption factor. Two factors in the environmental context that was not supported were the ‘technology skills and services’ and ‘platform long term viability’ although previous studies suggested otherwise.
 
Publisher Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia
 
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Date 2014-11-11
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.ui.ac.id/index.php/tseajm/article/view/3930
 
Source The South East Asian Journal of Management; Vol 8, No 2 (2014): October 2014; 129-150
 
Language en
 
Coverage South East Asia
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124 Malaysian organizations