Profiles of MIS Doctoral Candidates: Ideals and Reality

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 64-77

  Larsen, Kai R T ^a   Neely, M Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual characteristics; Job market; MIS candidates; Personality and jobs; Ph.D; Research abilities; Service abilities; Student performance; Students; Teaching abilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942662537     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/381823.381836     Document Type: Article

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