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Time Waits For No One: Using Time As A Lens In Information Systems Research, Christopher M. Conway
Time Waits For No One: Using Time As A Lens In Information Systems Research, Christopher M. Conway
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Despite considerable research interest, IT projects still fail at a higher rate than other projects. Primary causes for these failures are relational, motivational, and scheduling issues on the team. Using the concept of time as a lens, the four essays in this dissertation examine how the ways that individuals and teams structure time can help explain these failures. The essays formulate the concept of temporal dissonance at the individual and team level, and explore how temporal dissonance causes negative consequences for IT workers and IT teams.
Essay one synthesizes temporal dissonance from concepts of temporal congruity and cognitive dissonance. It …