Paper Info
Title
What Makes IT Professionals Special?: A Literature Review on Context-Specific Theorizing in IT Workforce Research
Abstract
Research on the IT workforce has played an important role in IS research for the past 40 years. An essential part of IT workforce research deals with the contextualization of theories. Models and theories are adapted to the IT environment by integrating context-specific factors to explicitly account for relevant IT-specific conditions. Our literature review addresses context-specific theorizing in IT workforce research to understand IT-specific contextual factors. By analyzing papers dealing with IT workforce related topics published in the Senior Scholars' Basket of Journals and in selected additional journals, we examine the process of contextualization in two ways. First, we synthesize predominant IT-specific contextual factors for IT workforce research. Second, we investigate approaches of contextualization in IT workforce literature. We present nine IT-specific contextual factors grouped by three perspectives. Additionally, we introduce two approaches for contextualization in the IT workforce research and give recommendations for context-specific theorizing. Our literature review contributes to a better understanding of the uniqueness of IT professionals by providing information about how context-specific theorizing is being considered in IT workforce research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3378539.3393861
SIGMIS-CPR '20: 2020 Computers and People Research Conference Nuremberg Germany June, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-7130-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Barbara Prommegger102.03
Manuel Wiesche27128.19
Helmut Krcmar32464373.50