Competence of IT professionals in e-business venture teams: The effect of experience and expertise on preference structure

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 51-80

  Kollmann, Tobias ^a   Häsel, Matthias ^b   Breugst, Nicola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c Max Planck Institute of Economics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competence of IT professionals; Competence profile; Competence valuation; Conjoint analysis; E business; Team composition

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

COMPETENCE PROFILES; CONJOINT ANALYSIS; EBUSINESS; IT PROFESSIONAL; TEAM COMPOSITION;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 68949085548     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222250402     Document Type: Article

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