Towards a Theory of Information Technology Platform Adoption

Presenter Information

Jaeki Song, ISQS, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States.Follow
Jeff Baker, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.Follow
Hyoungyong Choi, Global Service Management, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.Follow
Anol Bhattacherjee, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States.Follow

Start Date

12-16-2013

Description

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.

Recommended Citation

Song, Jaeki; Baker, Jeff; Choi, Hyoungyong; and Bhattacherjee, Anol, "Towards a Theory of Information Technology Platform Adoption" (2013). ICIS 2013 Proceedings. 32.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2013/proceedings/ResearchInProgress/32