Conceptualising the Causes and Consequences of Uncertainty in IS Development Organisations and Projects
Sabine Madsen · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2007
This paper is concerned with the situational causes and behavioural consequences of uncertainty in ISD organisations and projects.The paper draws on a social action theory perspective and select contributions from the fields of or about ISD, organisational studies, sociology, and psychology to discuss uncertainty as a concept and in terms of its' causes and influence on individual as well as on social action.The paper defines uncertainty, shows that it is an under-researched phenomenon, and provides a theoretical framework for further conceptual and empirical research into what makes IS developers feel uncertain, how they consequently act and interact, and what might promote the positive and prevent the negative effects of uncertainty in practice.