Decline and fall of the American programmer
Decline and fall of the American programmer
The career decision of information systems people
Information and Management
Turnover among DP personnel: a casual analysis
Communications of the ACM
Motivating and Managing Computer Personnel
Motivating and Managing Computer Personnel
Career paths in a changing IS environment: a theoretical perspective
SIGCPR '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGCPR conference on Supporting teams, groups, and learning inside and outside the IS function reinventing IS
Alternative employment structures in information systems: a conceptual analysis
SIGCPR '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGCPR conference on Supporting teams, groups, and learning inside and outside the IS function reinventing IS
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
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Prior research into information systems (IS) personnel has been primarily directed from the perspective of an internal labor market. The assumption underlying that body of research is that agents, i.e., IS workers, form long-term employment relationships with the principals, i.e., the firms employing. However, the recent emphasis on externalizing IS labor (for example, by outsourcing) suggests that this assumption may no longer hold true. This study provides an empirical investigation of the extent of externalizing IS workers in both the United States and Singapore. Results indicate that the United States utilizes more externalized IS employment structures than Singapore. Moreover, the trend toward externalized IS workers is more pronounced in the United States in the most recent three quarters analyzed than at any other period in the 1990–1993 timeframe. Possible explanations for the differential trend behavior ensue.