Dynamics of the importance of IS/IT skills

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 67-78

  Lee, Kyootai ^a   Mirchandani, Dinesh ^b  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics of the importance of IS IT skills; IS IT educators; IS IT professionals; Latent growth curve modeling

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS EXECUTIVES; BUSINESS SKILLS; IS/IT EDUCATORS; IS/IT PROFESSIONALS; LATENT GROWTH CURVES; MOBILE COMMERCE APPLICATIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

APPLICATIONS; EDUCATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 77956567514     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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