Senior women managers' transition to entrepreneurship: Leveraging embedded career capital

Career Development International

Volumn 10, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 246-259

  Terjesen, Siri ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Career satisfaction; Entrepreneurialism; Human capital; Women executives

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844449721     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430510598355     Document Type: Article

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