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Abstract | ||
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This paper investigates the factors that influence the adoption of IT platforms by software developers and how those factors differ from those that influence IT adoption by end-users. We take a multi-methodological approach, beginning with an interpretive field study where we interview mobile application developers. In the initial interpretive phase, we identify a comprehensive set of influences on developers' platform adoption, comparing them with the factors that have been identified in previous studies of end-user adoption, noting key differences. In the second phase, we empirically test the factors identified in our interviews. We find several key differences between end-user adoption of IT and developer adoption of IT platforms. Most notably, we observe the importance of network externality considerations when developers make an adoption decision, a consideration that is largely absent for end-users. Our study is among the first to comment on B2B and B2C issues in the adoption phenomenon where developers adopt a platform as technology producers (a B2B consideration) in order to ultimately provide mobile applications to end-users who are technology consumers (a B2C consideration). |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1016/j.dss.2017.12.013 | Decision Support Systems |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
IT platform adoption,Mobile applications,Multi-methodology,Quantitative research,Network externalities | Journal | 107 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
C | 0167-9236 | 6 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.44 | 50 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaeki Song | 1 | 637 | 34.38 |
| Jeff Baker | 2 | 37 | 4.04 |
| Ying Wang | 3 | 6 | 0.44 |
| Hyoungyong Choi | 4 | 7 | 1.11 |
| Anol Bhattacherjee | 5 | 3754 | 143.12 |