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ICIS2025-1897

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Modern project teams are unbounded, they are geographically dispersed, overlapping, and fluid. We investigate IT turnover as a consequence of IT team unboundedness. Based on job embeddedness theory of turnover and conservation of resources theory, we argue that the three causes of unboundedness (geographic dispersion, multi-teaming, and team fluidity) lead to resource loss for employees and thus to reduced job embeddedness. This reduced job embeddedness then increases the risk for turnover. We test our hypotheses with data from a large IT service provider on work hours of IT professionals. We estimate a survival model for 2,541 employees. We find that all causes of unboundedness significantly impact turnover behavior. Geographic dispersion increases turnover, while coreness of the central team and subtractions from the team decrease turnover. Overlap of teams and additions to the team have no effect.

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Dec 14th, 12:00 AM

Boundless Potential: The Influence of Unbounded IT Teams on Their Members’ Turnover

Modern project teams are unbounded, they are geographically dispersed, overlapping, and fluid. We investigate IT turnover as a consequence of IT team unboundedness. Based on job embeddedness theory of turnover and conservation of resources theory, we argue that the three causes of unboundedness (geographic dispersion, multi-teaming, and team fluidity) lead to resource loss for employees and thus to reduced job embeddedness. This reduced job embeddedness then increases the risk for turnover. We test our hypotheses with data from a large IT service provider on work hours of IT professionals. We estimate a survival model for 2,541 employees. We find that all causes of unboundedness significantly impact turnover behavior. Geographic dispersion increases turnover, while coreness of the central team and subtractions from the team decrease turnover. Overlap of teams and additions to the team have no effect.

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