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A longitudinal study of I/S careers: synthesis, conclusion, and recommendations

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research table of contents

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Pages: 36 - 48

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-904-1

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Stanley J. Smits	College of Business Administration, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Ephraim R. McLean	College of Business Administration, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
John R. Tanner	Department of Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA

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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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