Career orientations of MIS employees: An empirical analysis

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 151-169

  Igbaria, Magid ^a   Greenhaus, Jeffrey H ^a   Parasuraman, Saroj ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career management; Career orientations anchors; MIS personnel

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349144798     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249376     Document Type: Article

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