IDENTIFYING THE ENABLERS AND BARRIERS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PERSONNEL TRANSITION

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 289-298

  Darais, Karin M ^a   Nelson, Kay M ^b   Rice, Sarah C ^b   Buche, Mari Windsor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

career transition; IT personnel

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE;

CAREER TRANSITION; CAUSAL MAPPING; CAUSAL MAPS; IT PERSONNEL; MAPPING METHOD; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; TRANSITION THEORIES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85138752459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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