A Field Investigation of the Nostalgia Effect

Author

Sindhav, Birud ; Reinig, Bruce A. ; Briggs, Robert O.

Author_Institution

Manage. & Marketing Dept, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

4-7 Jan. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Satisfaction is a key indicator of system success, and so has been the subject of much IS research. The nostalgia effect, whereby individuals feel satisfied or dissatisfied when thinking about past goal attainment or failure, has been observed to influence analysts´ decisions with respect to ongoing systems development. The Yield Shift Theory (YST) of Satisfaction offers an explanation for the nostalgia effect as a function of changes in an individual´s active goal set. This paper reports on an exploratory field investigation of nostalgia effect among 105 working IS/IT professionals in India reflecting on past collaboration experiences. The study revealed a measurable nostalgia effect, and revealed a strong association between satisfaction responses and the antecedents proposed by Yield Shift Theory.

Keywords

information systems; social aspects of automation; IS research; IS/IT professionals; India; active goal set; exploratory field investigation; nostalgia effect; past goal attainment; satisfaction responses; strong association; system success; yield shift theory; Atmospheric measurements; Collaboration; Conferences; Correlation; Instruments; Particle measurements; Semantics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences (HICSS), 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9618-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2011.9

Filename

5718431