Barriers to adoption of software reuse: A qualitative study

With economic pressures to deliver software applications at a faster rate and at lower cost, software reuse is becoming a significant technology for software development. This paper focuses on deriving a descriptive and explanatory theory concerning the individual and organizational barriers associated with the adoption of reuse. A case-study research method was used. A series of five cases were selected on the basis of theoretical replication. The findings, which indicate that barriers occur at both the individual and organizational level, suggest that those at the individual level are actually a consequence of the interaction of barriers caused at the organizational level.