Revisiting the Perenniai Question: Are IS People Different?

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 62-72

  Wynekoop, Judy L ^a   Walz, Diane B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

analysts; and personality traits; individual differences; IS managers; IS personnel; programmers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005240266     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/298752.298759     Document Type: Article

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