Executive information requirements: getting it right
MIS Quarterly
EIS: it can work in the public sector
MIS Quarterly
Analyzing methodological rigor of MIS survey research from 1980–1989
Information and Management
The productivity paradox of information technology
Communications of the ACM
When can management science research be generalized internationally?
Management Science
Economic models for vendor evaluation with quality cost analysis
Management Science
Information technology investments in purchasing: an empirical study of dimensions and antecedents
Information and Management
Exploring the research in information technology implementation
Information and Management
Technical opinion: Roadblocks to Web technology adoption?
Communications of the ACM
Inside risks: robust open-source software
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Internet-based financial EDI: towards a theory of its organizational adoption
TNC'98 Proceedings of the TERENA networking conference '98 on Towards networking and services in the year 2001
Communications of the ACM
A literature review and classification of electronic commerce research
Information and Management
Information Technology and Management
A model of computerization of manufacturing systems: an international study
Information and Management
New tools for the determination of e-commerce inhibitors
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Agents and e-commerce business models
Research Report: Empirical Test of an EDI Adoption Model
Information Systems Research
The practice of IS/IT benefits management in large Australian organizations
Information and Management
An integrated model of information systems adoption in small businesses
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Market process reengineering through electronic market systems: opportunities and challenges
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and its organizational impact
Affective reward and the adoption of group support systems: productivity is not always enough
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Information technology and its organizational impact
Business computing research journals: a normalized citation analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems
Limits to Value in Electronic Commerce-Related IT Investments
Journal of Management Information Systems
Validating instruments in MIS research
MIS Quarterly
Small-firm computing: motivators and inhibitors
MIS Quarterly
The impact of information technology on middle managers
MIS Quarterly
Barriers to Successful Implementation of Database Marketing: A Cross-Industry Study
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Organizational, strategic and technical barriers to successful implementation of database marketing
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Organizational adoption of open source software: barriers and remedies
Communications of the ACM
Analysis of participation in an online photo-sharing community: A multidimensional perspective
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Seeing eye to eye? An exploratory study of free open source software users' perceptions
Journal of Systems and Software
Adoption of Open Source Software: The role of social identification
Decision Support Systems
A systematic review of research on open source software in commercial software product development
Information and Software Technology
Exploring the determinants of the OSS market potential: The case of the Apache web server
Telecommunications Policy
Free/Libre open-source software development: What we know and what we do not know
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A systematic review of research on open source software in commercial software product development
EASE'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
Leadership characteristics and developers' motivation in open source software development
Information and Management
Adoption of open source software in organizations: A socio-cognitive perspective
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
An Initial Examination of Free and Proprietary Software-Selection in Organizations
International Journal of Web Portals
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Organisations have traditionally relied on commercial software products to support their operations. However, rising software costs and recent corporate failures have brought the provision and value of commercial software into question. Recently, open source software, as a relatively new development in the IS field, has risen in popularity as a possible panacea for these ills. If firms value low acquisition cost, ostensibly plentiful support, and source code access, why have not more firms adopted open source software? The lack of published empirical research in the area means this issue has been inadequately addressed. This paper examines why firms do not adopt open source software. This study surveyed 500 of Australia's top firms to see why managers rejected open source software. The study found that managers rejected open source software because they could not see that it had any relevance to their operations, perceived a lack of reliable ongoing technical support of it and also appeared to see substantial learning costs or had adopted other software that they believed to be incompatible with open source software.