CPR 2007: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Fred Niederman, Mary Sumner, Diane Lending, Chelley Vician (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference on Computer Personnel Research 2007, April 19-21, 2007, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. ACM 2007 ISBN 978-1-59593-641-7
IT careers
Sandra K. Newton, J. Ellis Blanton, Stephen C. Wingreen: Exploring the characteristics of an IT professional's employment arrangement. 1-8
Pruthikrai Mahatanankoon: The effects of post-educational professional development activities on promotion and career satisfaction of IT professionals. 9-14
Virtual teams
Monica Adya, Dhruv Nath, Amit Malik, Varadharajan Sridhar: Bringing global sourcing into the classroom: experiential learning via software development project. 20-27
M. Rita Thissen, Jean M. Page, Madhavi C. Bharathi, Toyia L. Austin: Communication tools for distributed software development teams. 28-35
Haiyan Huang, Eileen M. Trauth: Cultural influences and globally distributed information systems development: experiences from Chinese IT professionals. 36-45
IT service management
Stuart D. Galup, Jim J. Quan, Ronald Dattero, Sue Conger: Information technology service management: an emerging area for academic research and pedagogical development. 46-52
Stuart D. Galup, Sue Conger, Ronald Dattero, Anthony Orr, Ron Palmer, Jack Probst, Paul Kontogiorgis: IT service management: academic programs face the issues of globalization. 53-54
Global business environment: management challenges
Tim Klaus, Stephen C. Wingreen, J. Ellis Blanton: Examining user resistance and management strategies in enterprise system implementations. 55-62
Willy Dertz, Maung K. Sein: Research in progress: where are all the people? the curious case of one-person IT departments. 63-65
Edgar A. Maldonado, Andrea Hoplight Tapia: National information technology policy in a globalized world: building an IT workforce for Venezuela. 66-75
Fostering resilience
Wanda J. Smith, France Belanger, Tracy Lewis, Kristi Honaker: Fostering resilience in IT: a resource toolkit for faculty. 76-77
IT economy and policy
James B. Pick, Rasool Azari: Worldwide digital divide: influences of education, workforce, economic, and policy factors on information technology. 78-86
Bijoy Bordoloi: Economics of offshore outsourcing: anything new under the sun? 92-94
IT workforce preparation
Leo Hitchcock: Industry certification and academic degrees: complementary, or poles apart? 95-100
John Benamati: Current and future entry-level IT workforce needs in organizations. 101-104
Andrew Aken, Michael D. Michalisin: The impact of the skills gap on the recruitment of MIS graduates. 105-111
Eileen M. Trauth, Mike Reinert, Michael C. Zigner: A regional IT occupational partnership for economic development. 112-120
Managing the global IT workforce
Gigi Kelly, Larry Reuwer, Brian Ashworth, Edward Jones, Sivasailam Sankar, Barb Strang: Managing the global information technology workforce. 121
IT careers II
Jeria L. Quesenberry, Eileen M. Trauth: What do women want?: an investigation of career anchors among women in the IT workforce. 122-127
Kshiti D. Joshi, Kristine M. Kuhn, Fred Niederman: Multiple stakeholders' perceptions of critical attributes of a top performer: exploring the effects of congruency. 128-133
Gaëtan Mourmant, Mike Gallivan: How personality type influences decision paths in the unfolding model of voluntary job turnover: an application to IS professionals. 134-143
Virtual community contributions
Jie Yu, Zhenhui Jiang, Hock Chuan Chan: Knowledge contribution in problem solving virtual communities: the mediating role of individual motivations. 144-152
Trevor D. Moore, Mark A. Serva: Understanding member motivation for contributing to different types of virtual communities: a proposed framework. 153-158
Kon Shing Kenneth Chung, Liaquat Hossain, Joseph Davis: Individual performance in knowledge intensive work through social networks. 159-167
IT skills
H. James Nelson, Altaf Ahmad, Nancy L. Martin, Charles R. Litecky: A comparative study of IT/IS job skills and job definitions. 168-170
Debbie Beard, Dana Schwieger, Ken Surendran: Incorporating soft skills into accounting and MIS curricula. 179-185
Managing IS communication

Tracy Hall, David Wilson, Austen Rainer, Dorota Jagielska: Communication: the neglected technical skill? 196-202
Geneviève Bassellier, Izak Benbasat: Assessing the contributions of business and IT knowledge to the development of IT/business partnerships. 203-206
Interdisciplinary research
Myria W. Allen, Deborah J. Armstrong, Margaret F. Reid, Cynthia K. Riemenschneider: Lessons learned from conducting interdisciplinary IT workforce research. 207-208
Cross-cultural
Kyootai Lee, Kailash Joshi, Ronan McIvor: Understanding multicultural differences in online satisfaction. 209-212
Mary Sumner: Career orientation and the global IT workforce: research in progress. 213-215
Indira R. Guzman, Damien Joseph, K. N. Papamichail, Jeffrey M. Stanton: RIP - beliefs about IT culture: exploring national and gender differences. 217-220
Doctoral consortium
Chingning Wang: Building a theory of IT compensation. 221-223
Christina N. Outlay: Resizing information systems personnel after IT outsourcing: exploring psychological contracts, violations, and employee outcomes. 224-227
Yide Shen: Transactive memory system development in virtual teams: the potential role of shared identity and shared context. 228-230
Hirotoshi Takeda: A proposal for a model on media selection. 231-234



