Career Satisfaction for Managerial and Technical Anchored IS Personnel in Later Career Stages

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Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 64-72

  Hsu, Maxwell K ^a   Chen, H G ^b   Jiang, James J ^c   Klein, Gary ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Career Anchors; Career Satisfaction; Career Stages; Information System Personnel

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745873196     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/957758.957766     Document Type: Article

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