Phaphoom, N. and Wang, X. and Samuel, Sarah and Helmer, S. and Abrahamsson, P. (2015) A survey study on major technical barriers affecting the decision to adopt cloud services. Journal of Systems and Software 103 , pp. 167-181. ISSN 0164-1212.
Abstract
In the context of cloud computing, risks associated with underlying technologies, risks involving service models and outsourcing, and enterprise readiness have been recognized as potential barriers for the adoption. To accelerate cloud adoption, the concrete barriers negatively influencing the adoption decision need to be identified. Our study aims at understanding the impact of technical and security-related barriers on the organizational decision to adopt the cloud. We analyzed data collected through a web survey of 352 individuals working for enterprises consisting of decision makers as well as employees from other levels within an organization. The comparison of adopter and non-adopter sample reveals three potential adoption inhibitor, security, data privacy, and portability. The result from our logistic regression analysis confirm the criticality of the security concern, which results in an up to 26-fold increase in the non-adoption likelihood. Our study underlines the importance of the technical and security perspectives for research investigating the adoption of technology.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | cloud computing, adoption barriers, innovation adoption, adoption decision, logistic regression |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2015 12:31 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:36 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11607 |
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