BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND IT PROFESSIONALS - A Social Network Analysis Perspective

Susanne Berger, Georg Peters

2007

Abstract

There is ongoing discussion whether and to which extent and aspects professionals in the field of information technology (IT) and business administration (BA) are different. Often IT people are considered to be introverted while it is assumed that BA professionals are stronger with respect to communication and networking. In our paper we take a social network analysis perspective to examine if this prejudice is true for BA and IT professionals who are members of an online business community.

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Berger S. and Peters G. (2007). BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND IT PROFESSIONALS - A Social Network Analysis Perspective . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-91-7, pages 235-240. DOI: 10.5220/0002343902350240


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Susanne Berger and Georg Peters},
title={BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND IT PROFESSIONALS - A Social Network Analysis Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={235-240},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002343902350240},
isbn={978-972-8865-91-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND IT PROFESSIONALS - A Social Network Analysis Perspective
SN - 978-972-8865-91-7
AU - Berger S.
AU - Peters G.
PY - 2007
SP - 235
EP - 240
DO - 10.5220/0002343902350240