TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a theory of information technology platform adoption
AU - Song, Jaeki
AU - Baker, Jeff
AU - Choi, Hyoungyong
AU - Bhattacherjee, Anol
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This research-in-progress paper describes the factors that influence the adoption of IT platforms for application development. The adoption of specific platforms is of tremendous importance in the IT industry; as developers choose particular platforms, they influence the programming languages, applications, and technologies that will become dominant in the future. IT adoption has been a popular area of research for several decades, with a number of theoretical explanations having been developed. IT adoption, however, may differ systematically from IT platform adoption. To investigate the factors that influence IT platform adoption, and whether those factors differ from those that are relevant in IT adoption, we conduct an interpretive field study, analyzing interviews with mobile application developers. After analyzing our results, we discuss the similarities to and differences from extant research on IT adoption.
AB - This research-in-progress paper describes the factors that influence the adoption of IT platforms for application development. The adoption of specific platforms is of tremendous importance in the IT industry; as developers choose particular platforms, they influence the programming languages, applications, and technologies that will become dominant in the future. IT adoption has been a popular area of research for several decades, with a number of theoretical explanations having been developed. IT adoption, however, may differ systematically from IT platform adoption. To investigate the factors that influence IT platform adoption, and whether those factors differ from those that are relevant in IT adoption, we conduct an interpretive field study, analyzing interviews with mobile application developers. After analyzing our results, we discuss the similarities to and differences from extant research on IT adoption.
KW - Diffusion
KW - IT adoption
KW - IT platforms
KW - Interpretive research
KW - Mobile applications
KW - Network externalities
KW - Software development
KW - Theory building
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84897806401&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84897806401
SN - 9781629934266
T3 - International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013): Reshaping Society Through Information Systems Design
SP - 4370
EP - 4377
BT - International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013)
T2 - International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2013
Y2 - 15 December 2013 through 18 December 2013
ER -