A longitudinal study of the influence of work self-concept and career certainty on the vocational development of information systems professionals

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A longitudinal study of the influence of work self-concept and career certainty on the vocational development of information systems professionals

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGCPR/SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research table of contents

Denver, Colorado, United States

Pages: 305 - 312

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-782-0

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Stanley J. Smits	College of Business Administration, Georgia State University, Atlanda, GA
Norman B. Bryan, Jr.	College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Ephraim R. McLean	College of Business Administration, Georgia State University, Atlanda, GA

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SIGMIS: ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems
SIGCPR: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Stanley J. Smits , Ephraim R. McLean , John R. Tanner, A longitudinal study of I/S careers: synthesis, conclusion, and recommendations, Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research, p.36-48, April 03-05, 1997, San Francisco, California, United States
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