Conceptual Model for Examining Knowledge Maps Adoption in Software Development Organizations

A Conceptual Model for Examining E-Government Adoption in Jordan

Examining Post Adoption Usage: Conceptual Development and Empirical Assessment

Understanding post adoption behavior has emerged as an important issue in IS research. Organizations have invested in a plethora of information systems (IS) and enriching the usage of these systems can provide organizations with immense benefits. Prior research has examined factors that lead to continued usage of IS, which is critical. But comprehending usage behavior in the context of effectiv...

A Conceptual Model for Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software

While IT researchers have long focused on achieving strategic benefits provided by IT investments, recently some have claimed “IT doesn’t matter.” We believe that most large organizations have both highly strategic and highly commoditized IT investments, and that differences in the strategic importance of information systems help explain where firms will adopt new technologies. We develop a fra...

A Model for Assessing Organizational Learning in Software Development Organizations

In order to keep up with the continuously increasing competition and to obtain competitive advantage, software developer organizations (SDO) need to possess the characteristics of Learning Software Organizations (LSO). Maturity is directly related to both learning and knowledge management (KM). However, the major software process improvement (SPI) approaches do not explicitly address how learni...

Methods as knowledge enablers in software development organizations

Knowledge management (KM) plays an increasingly important role in software development. We find that a missed aspect of software development methods is their possibility to play a role as knowledge enabler. Knowledge enablers are organizational mechanisms for intentionally and consistently developing knowledge in organizations. Drawing on KMtheories we discuss what roles methods can play as kno...