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Relating IS Developers' Attitudes to Engagement

@article{Licorish2021RelatingID,
  title={Relating IS Developers' Attitudes to Engagement},
  author={Sherlock A. Licorish and Stephen G. MacDonell},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2102.06318}
}
Increasing effort is being directed to understanding the personality profiles of highly engaged information systems (IS) developers and the impact of such profiles on development outcomes. However, there has been a lesser degree of attention paid to studying attitudes at a fine-grained level, and relating such attitudes to developers’ in-process activities, in spite of the fact that social motivation theory notes the importance of such a relationship in general group work. We have therefore… 
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