2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2015.01.004
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Adopting open source software in public administration: The importance of boundary spanners and political commitment

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“…Moreover, the extent of e-democracy development was not related to citizen demands, and also not related to differences in political ideology between municipalities. A final example, Van Loon and Toshkov (2015) found that the degree of open source software (OSS) adoption by municipalities was determined to a large extent by the presence of policy advocates and the extent of political commitment, and not by organizational capacity.…”
Section: Progress In the Selection Of The Empirical Domainmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, the extent of e-democracy development was not related to citizen demands, and also not related to differences in political ideology between municipalities. A final example, Van Loon and Toshkov (2015) found that the degree of open source software (OSS) adoption by municipalities was determined to a large extent by the presence of policy advocates and the extent of political commitment, and not by organizational capacity.…”
Section: Progress In the Selection Of The Empirical Domainmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to van Loon and Toshkov (2015) a migration to FLOSS in European municipalities rarely occurs for financial reasons, this more likely happens in companies, but rather due to top-down decisions. At universities a top-down decision for a migration to FLOSS, or to any specific software products, would be counterproductive as it would hinder unhampered science workflow and creativity.…”
Section: Reasons For Migration To Flossmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several public administrations or municipalities worldwide are planning to migrate or have already migrated to FLOSS or prefer open standards (e.g., Simon, 2005;Joode et al, 2006;Cassell, 2008;Ghosh et al, 2010;Karjalainen, 2010;Comino et al, 2011;Oram, 2011;Rojas and Polzer, 2011;Rossi et al, 2012;Hillenius, 2013;Bouras et al, 2014;van Loon and Toshkov, 2015;Silic and Back, 2015). Well known examples are the municipality of Munich, the Italian military, or the French Interior Ministry (URL 1).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Açıq mənbəli və proprietar proqram təminatı bir-birinə zidd görünsə də, müasir proprietar tətbiqi proqramların əksəriyyəti digər istehsalçıların proqram təminatı komponentlərindən yığılır ki, onların da bir çoxu açıq kodlu komponentlərdir [4].…”
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