Deborah J. Armstrong

Deborah J. Armstrong is an assistant professor of Information Systems at the University of Arkansas. She received her Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Kansas with a concentration in information systems and supporting emphasis in organizational communications. Dr. Armstrong’s research interests cover a variety of issues involving the human aspects of technology, change, learning and cognition.

Publications

Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Deborah J. Armstrong, H. James Nelson, Kay M. Nelson, V.K. Narayanan. © 2010. 17 pages.
The software development process has undergone a considerable amount of change from the early days of spaghetti code to the present state of the art of development using...
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Deborah J. Armstrong, H. James Nelson, Kay M. Nelson, V. K. Narayanan. © 2010. 18 pages.
The software development process has undergone a considerable amount of change from the early days of spaghetti code to the present state of the art of development using...
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Deborah J. Armstrong, H. James Nelson, Kay M. Nelson, V.K. Narayanan. © 2010. 18 pages.
The software development process has undergone a considerable amount of change from the early days of spaghetti code to the present state of the art of development using...
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge
Deborah J. Armstrong, H. James Nelson, Kay M. Nelson, V.K. Narayanan. © 2008. 17 pages.
The software development process has undergone a considerable amount of change from the early days of spaghetti code to the present state of the art of development using...
Managing IT Employee Retention: Challenges for State Governments
Managing IT Employee Retention: Challenges for State Governments
Deborah J. Armstrong, Margaret F. Reid, Myria W. Allen, Cynthia K. Riemenschneider. © 2007. 18 pages.
IT employees are critical to the successful functioning of contemporary governmental agencies. Researchers and practitioners have long sought to identify workplace factors that...
Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology
Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology
V.K. Narayanan, Deborah J. Armstrong. © 2005. 396 pages.
Causal Mapping for Research in Information Technology provides an introduction to causal mapping for IS researchers and practitioners and goes further to provide IS researchers...
Causal Mapping: A Discussion and Demonstration
Causal Mapping: A Discussion and Demonstration
Deborah J. Armstrong. © 2005. 26 pages.
Causal mapping is a technique that can be used to represent cognition because it captures the structure of the causal assertions of an individual or group. As causal mapping...
Expanding Horizons: Juxtaposing Causal Mapping and Survey Techniques
Expanding Horizons: Juxtaposing Causal Mapping and Survey Techniques
Deborah J. Armstrong, V. K. Narayanan. © 2005. 21 pages.
In this chapter, we compare the findings from causal maps derived from semi-structured interviews with that obtained from survey respondents, using a data set originally...