-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] JAIS Open Access FLOSS paper Jan 2011 Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:45:53 +1100 From: Gregor, Shirley Shirley.Gregor@anu.edu.au To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: JAIS jais@anu.edu.au
In keeping with the spirit of the open source movement, the final paper from the Special Issue on Empirical Research on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), is now provided online as open access. See paper Number 4 in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2011: Adopting Free/Libre/Open Source Software Practices, Techniques and Methods for Industrial Use Richard Torkar, Pau Minoves, and Janina Garrigós http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol12/iss1/
The main parts of the special issue, with Guest Editors Michael Wade and Kevin Crowston, were published in JAIS in November and December 2010 and are also open access.
Readers are reminded that access to the other papers in the January 2011 JAIS issue is free to AIS members and on a pay per view basis to others.
Researchers in the area of technology adoption may find Paper No 1., by Li, Troutt, Brandyberry and Wang of particular interest. This paper provides a new adoption model that can be used at the organizational level and offers a rich picture of adoption decisions, with factors influencing adoption at the decision entity, decision object and decision context level. The results show different patterns of adoption drivers for continued use compared with initial adoption. Papers 1 to 3 in the JAIS, January, 2011 issue are: Decision Factors for the Adoption and Continued Use of Online Direct Sales Channels among SMEs Xiaolin Li, Marvin D. Troutt, Alan Brandyberry, and Tuo Wang Online Impulse Buying: Understanding the Interplay between Consumer Impulsiveness and Website Quality John D. Wells, Veena Parboteeah, and Joseph S. Valacich Venture Capital Funding for Information Technology Businesses Brian L. Dos Santos, Pankaj C. Patel, and Rodney R. D’Souza