"You want it when?" How temporal dissonance in IT workers contributes to project failures

International Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 2328-2347

  Conway, Christopher M ^a   Limayem, Moez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

IT workers; Stress; Temporal congruity; Temporal dissonance

Indexed keywords

IT PROJECT; IT WORKERS; PROJECT FAILURES; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPORAL CONGRUITY; TEMPORAL DISSONANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STRESSES;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84884625754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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