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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCPR conference on Management of information systems personnel table of contents

College park, Maryland, United States

Pages: 78 - 87

Year of Publication: 1988

ISBN:0-89791-262-4

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J. Webster

New York Univ., New York, NY

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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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