This paper addresses an untapped, though important, type of information technology (IT) personnel turnover: IT entrepreneurship. We develop a comprehensive model to understand the factors and processes that influence turnover behaviour for prospective (nascent) IT entrepreneurs. To do this, we...

This paper addresses the question of fostering and developing innovation in IT companies and IT departments. This paper uses a Classic Grounded Theory based on interviews with CEOs, CIOs, IT Managers and IT employees. Spaces of IT Intrapreneurial Freedom (SoIF) is the theoretical core category...

The unfolding model of voluntary turnover, as tested by Niederman et al. [1], surprisingly appears to only capture 12% of the job leavers in IT, whereas when applied to other occupational groups, such as accountant or nurses, this ratio is much higher (respectively 92% and 77%). To address this...

A new model for understanding job turnover was introduced into the management literature a decade ago [26], analyzing the process by which employees decide to leave their jobs. This "unfolding model of voluntary turnover" is a radical departure from traditional models of job turnover, positing...

Improvisation is a core dimension of crisis response. It helps organizations to deal with complexity and to figure innovative responses to crisis in a short delay. Still, our knowledge on how improvisation develops cognitively is scarce. As a result, managers miss tools that would support...

This proposal builds on the interaction between a dynamic construct that I call entrepreneur maturation (EM) and the shock construct from Lee et al (1996)'s Unfolding Model of Turnover. This proposal describes an exploratory study in which I seek to understand how an IS nascent entrepreneur (NE)...

Analysé tantôt comme une véritable révolution, tantôt comme un simple « feu de paille », le développement des TIC a eu plusieurs types de conséquences au sein des entreprises. Ces technologies n’ont pas seulement modifié le contenu du travail. Elles ont également été à...