TY - CHAP

T1 - Understanding the socio-technical aspects of low-code adoption for software development

AU - Naqvi, Syed Asad Ali

AU - Zimmer, Markus Philipp

AU - Rehan, Syed

AU - Drews, Paul

N1 - Conference code: 31

PY - 2023/11/5

Y1 - 2023/11/5

N2 - The digital transformation of organizations’ leverages several approaches for creating software applications that meet the requirements of the specific context. Besides well-researched approaches like software development, outsourcing, or customizing commercial software packages, low-code platforms today offer a new approach for creating software. The low-code approach allows to develop software without or with limited actual coding, but by combining executable software components into workflows. While the low-code approach simplifies software development and offers a reduction in effort and time, we lack explanations on why organizations adopt it, and which challenges are associated with this adoption. We, therefore, investigate the adoption of the low-code approach based on the technology-organization-environment framework. We identified ten aspects supporting and six aspects hindering the adoption of the low-code approach. For practice, we propose a model that can assist organizations in determining the adequacy for adopting the low-code approach.

AB - The digital transformation of organizations’ leverages several approaches for creating software applications that meet the requirements of the specific context. Besides well-researched approaches like software development, outsourcing, or customizing commercial software packages, low-code platforms today offer a new approach for creating software. The low-code approach allows to develop software without or with limited actual coding, but by combining executable software components into workflows. While the low-code approach simplifies software development and offers a reduction in effort and time, we lack explanations on why organizations adopt it, and which challenges are associated with this adoption. We, therefore, investigate the adoption of the low-code approach based on the technology-organization-environment framework. We identified ten aspects supporting and six aspects hindering the adoption of the low-code approach. For practice, we propose a model that can assist organizations in determining the adequacy for adopting the low-code approach.

KW - Informatics

KW - Business informatics

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

T3 - Proceedings of European Conference on Information System (ECIS)

BT - ECIS 2023 Proceedings

A2 - Aanestad, Margunn

A2 - Klein, Stefan

A2 - Tarafdar, Monideepa

PB - AIS eLibrary

T2 - European Conference on Information Systems 2023

Y2 - 11 June 2023 through 16 June 2023

ER -