Identifying the prototypical career paths of IT professionals: A sequence and cluster analysis

SIGMIS CPR'05 - Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 94-96

  Joseph, Damien ^a   Ang, Soon ^a   Slaughter, Sandra ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career Paths; IT Profession; Longitudinal; Sequence Analysis

Indexed keywords

CAREER PATHS; IT PROFESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MANAGERS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 29144432793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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