The paper presents an explorative study of Open Source Software (OSS) focusing on the managerial decisions for acquisition of OSS. Based on three case studies we argue that whereas small organizations often may chose adoption of OSS expecting significant cost savings, a major barrier for larger...

Knowledge management has inspired a shift from a transaction to a distributed knowledge management (DKM) <p> perspective on interorganizational information processing. The DKM concept structures the knowledge creation, <p> knowledge sharing and knowledge exploitation in organizations according to a...</p></p>