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An Empirical Investigation on IT Training Sources

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The Open Knowlege Society. A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto (WSKS 2008)

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This paper analyses the presence of IT training sources used by firms and examines the influence on IT business value. Here, IT training is studied according to three IT training sources: in-house IT training, outside IT training, and self IT training by employees. In addition, differences in IT training sources are analysed according to two contingency factors: business size and business industry. Based on a simple of around 1000 Spanish firms, results show a positive relationship between IT training sources (outside and self IT training) and IT business value and confirm that IT training sources are positively related to business size and differ moderately by business industry.

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  1. Department of Management and Finance, University of Murcia, Spain

    Pedro Soto-Acosta

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Miltiadis D. Lytras John M. Carroll Ernesto Damiani Robert D. Tennyson David Avison Gottfried Vossen Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

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Soto-Acosta, P. (2008). An Empirical Investigation on IT Training Sources. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. The Open Knowlege Society. A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto. WSKS 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87783-7_93

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