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Alternative employment structures in information systems: a conceptual analysis

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGCPR conference on Supporting teams, groups, and learning inside and outside the IS function reinventing IS table of contents

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Pages: 181 - 193

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-712-X

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Soon Ang	Information Management Research Center (MARC), School of Accountancy and Business, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue 2263, Republic of Singapore
Sandra Slaughter	Department of Information and Decision Sciences, 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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SIGCPR: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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