Much has happened since our last update! As the dust settles on our data collection and cleaning activities, we are settling into the academic analysis phase of our project. The US WANE team has completed all data cleaning and initial analyses, including an extensive internal guide to the US data which we provided to our international teammates.
We have mailed print copies of the human resource management toolkit, Future Work, to our participant firms. This toolkit is publicly available through our international team website (www.wane.ca).
Work is underway for an exciting new book based on the WANE data, Ageing and Working in the New Economy: Careers and Changing Structures in Small and Medium Size Information Technology Firm, edited by international WANE principal investigator Julie McMullin and US team leader Victor Marshall. The book will be published by Edward Elgar Press. Victor Marshall, Neil Charness, Mark Fox, Sara Haviland, and Jennifer Craft Morgan, and several of our international WANE colleagues, will have chapters in the book, which will be published 2009. We will provide updates on the book as it gets closer to press.
Additionally, US WANE data will appear along with others in a forthcoming book Working in Information Technology Firms: Intersections of Gender and Aging, edited by Julie McMullin. This book features work from scholars on our international team, and US data are used in several chapters.
In addition to our work on scholarly chapters, articles, and presentations, the WANE data are being used to help students achieve academic objectives. NC Project Manager Sara Haviland is working on her sociology PhD dissertation under the direction of Victor Marshall, examining trends in the modern workforce using WANE data. Frank Rojas, an undergraduate business student at Florida State University, is also using the WANE data as he completes an honors thesis under the direction of Neil Charness.
While the data collection of our project is complete, we will continue to update this page as more of our projects come to fruition. If you have any questions about the project, please feel free to contact US team leader Victor Marshall at victor_marshall@unc.edu.
