Rites, right?: The value of rites de passage for dealing with today's career transitions

Career Development International

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 52-66

  Mayrhofer, Wolfgang ^a   Iellatchitch, Alexandre ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Career development; Ethnography; Organizational culture; Psychological contracts; Social processes; Sociology of work

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844432263     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430510577628     Document Type: Review

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