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Open Source System As Innovation In Organizations: A Managerial Perspective On Its Adoption, Noor Ismawati Jaafar, Sharifah Fazlinda Sheikh Yahya
Open Source System As Innovation In Organizations: A Managerial Perspective On Its Adoption, Noor Ismawati Jaafar, Sharifah Fazlinda Sheikh Yahya
The South East Asian Journal of Management
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 …