We have a platform, but nobody builds on it – what influences Platform-as-a-Service post-adoption?
- When higher-level management of a company has strategically decided to adopt Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) as a Cloud Computing (CC) delivery model, decision-makers at lower hierarchy levels still need to decide whether they want to post-adopt PaaS for building or running an information system (IS) – a decision that numerous companies are currently facing. This research analyzes the influential factors of this managerial post-adoption decision on the IS-level. A survey of 168 business and Information Technology (IT) professionals investigated the influential factors of this PaaS post-adoption decision. The results show that decision-makers’ perceptions of risks inhibit post-adoption. Vendor trust and trialability reduce these perceived risks. While competitive pressure increases perceived benefits, it does not significantly influence PaaS post-adoption. Controversially, security and privacy, cost savings, and top management support do not influence post-adoption, as opposed to findings on company-level adoption. Subsamples constructed by the form of post-adoptive use (migration of IS, enhancement of IS, new IS development) exhibit better goodness-of-fit measures than the full sample. Future research should explore this interrelation of the form of post-adoptive use and the post-adoption influence factors.
Author: | Frederik Wulf, Markus WestnerORCiDGND, Susanne Strahringer |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-33778 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.12821/ijispm100103 |
ISSN: | 2182-7788 |
Parent Title (English): | International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
Publishing Institution: | Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg |
Release Date: | 2022/04/06 |
Tag: | Platform-as-a-Service; cloud computing; delivery model; post-adoption |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 1 |
First Page: | 49 |
Last Page: | 70 |
Institutes: | Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik |
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Regensburg Strategic IT Management (ReSITM) | |
Begutachtungsstatus: | peer-reviewed |
research focus: | Digitalisierung |
OpenAccess Publikationsweg: | Diamond Open Access - OA-Veröffentlichung ohne Publikationskosten (Sponsoring) |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |