Towards a Research Model of Post-adoption of Open Government Data in Malaysia’s Public Sector

Open Government Data (OGD) is regarded as an organization-level innovation that works ideally in a data openness ecosystem where a government publishes data for free use and re-use by anyone without any restrictions. These days, the extant study on OGD adoption largely focused on finding the factors that influence the OGD adopter in the adoption phase. Although these studies help to clarify the adopter’s decision, the stance of the adopter after accepting the OGD is very much important. Knowing the limited availability of the literature about OGD in the post-adoption phase, this study seeks to propose a research model for OGD implementation in the post-adoption phase in Malaysia’s public sector. The research model is drawn from the Technology-Organization-Environment framework and innovation adoption process as the theoretical foundation, while the OGD principles are integrated as an added construct to the research model. With this research model, researchers would be able to explain the OGD adoption continuity in the post-adoption phase from the perspective of the data provider.