Turnover of Information Technology Professionals: The Effects of Internal Labor Market Strategies

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 11-27

  Ang, Soon ^a   Slaughter, Sandra ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal Labor Market Strategies; Management of Information Technology Workforce; Recruitment and Retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844478519     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1017114.1017118     Document Type: Article

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