Threat of professional obsolescence and mobility intentions: The mediating role of coping strategies

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2266-2274

  Joseph, Damien ^a   Ang, Soon ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Coping; IT professionals; Occupational work stress; Threat of professional obsolescence; Tumaway; Turnover

Indexed keywords

COPING; IT PROFESSIONAL; TUMAWAY; TURNOVER; WORK STRESS;

CONSERVATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

OBSOLESCENCE;

EID: 84870365212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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