More than a bumper sticker: The factors influencing information systems career choices

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-26

  Scott, Christopher ^a   Fuller, Mark A ^a   MacIndoe, Kimberly M ^b   Joshi, K D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seattle Midwifery School   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Enrollment crisis; Exploratory; Interviews; IS discipline

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CAREER PATHS; ENROLLMENT CRISIS; EXPLORATORY; FOCUS GROUPS; INTERVIEWS; IS DISCIPLINES; MIS PROFESSIONALS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70349330430     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02402     Document Type: Article

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