Make or Buy? Factors that Impact the Adoption of Cloud Computing on the Content Level

Ivo Gonzenbach (), Christian Russ () and Jan vom Brocke ()
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Ivo Gonzenbach: Steffen Informatik AG
Christian Russ: SoftwareONE AG
Jan vom Brocke: University of Liechtenstein

A chapter in Enterprise Content Management in Information Systems Research, 2014, pp 145-161 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The emergence of cloud computing has led enterprises to rethink fundamentally how they organize their content assets. In particular, IT managers are challenged to decide what content should be managed in the cloud and what should not. Grounded in the IS literature on IT outsourcing, this chapter presents a set of criteria that organizations can consider when making this decision. Because it is a make-or-buy decision, transaction cost theory (TCT) was used as a theoretical lens for the study. Accordingly, the chapter suggests specificity (e.g., degree of standardization of content management), frequency (e.g., frequency of usage), and uncertainty (e.g., legal situation) to impact the cloud computing decision.

Keywords: Transaction Cost; Cloud Computing; Cloud Service; Public Cloud; Cloud Infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39715-8_9

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