Migration to Open-Standard Interorganizational Systems: Network Effects, Switching Costs, and Path Dependency

Migration to Open-Standard Interorganizational Systems: Network Effects, Switching Costs and Path Dependency RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT June 2005 KEVIN ZHU The Paul Merage School of Business, and CRITO University of California, Irvine 949.824.2619 Tel. kzhu@uci.edu KENNETH L. KRAEMER The Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) The Paul Merage School of Business University of California, Irvine 949.824.5246 Tel. kkraemer@uci.edu VIJAY GURBAXANI The CRITO Consortium The Paul Merage School of Business University of California, Irvine 949.824.5215 Tel. vgurbaxa@uci.edu SEAN XU The Paul Merage School of Business, and CRITO University of California, Irvine sxu00@uci.edu This research has been supported by grants from the CISE/IIS/CSS Division of the U.S. National Science Foundation and the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (CISE/EEC) to the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at the University of California, Irvine. Industry sponsors include: The Boeing Company, IBM, IDC, Intel, Microsoft, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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