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Building a Case for Consonance

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A number of theories and practices lean toward the importance of achieving agreement among various stakeholders and practices in organizations. Consonance is such a concept applied to systems development and allows likelihood of success to be measured at the start of a project rather than the conclusion. This paper reviews theory and preliminary studies that support the concept of consonance.

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  1. College of Business and Administration, The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, USA

    Gary Klein

  2. Department of Computer Information Systems, College of Administration and Business Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, USA

    James J. Jiang

  3. School of Business, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, USA

    Michael Boyd

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska (Dsc, Professor) (Dsc, Professor)

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Klein, G., Jiang, J.J., Boyd, M. (1999). Building a Case for Consonance. In: Abramowicz, W., Orlowska, M.E. (eds) BIS ’99. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0875-7_1

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