From Intention to Adoption: Managerial Misalignment in Cybersecurity Training Investments for Software Development Organizations
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: To ensure adequate skill development, but also competitive advantage as a software engineering organization, initiatives in cybersecurity training is one of several important investment decisions to make for management. This study builds upon three case organizations in Sweden and Greece, where managers’ and software developers’ perceptions on trialability and observability effects are analyzed, grounded in the theory of innovation diffusion. Using interviews and a developer-centric survey, both quantitative and qualitative data are collected, and used in combination to support the development of a pre-investment framework for management. The analysis includes thematic analysis, cosine similarity comparison, and, to some extent, sentiment polarity scoring. A pre-investment framework consisting of a process of seven concrete steps is proposed, based on the empirical findings in the study.
Source: Software
Authors: Hannes Salin, Vasileios Gkougkaras
Institution: Dalarna University
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,207
OpenAlex ID: W4415138731