Exploring career transitions: Accounting for structure and agency

Personnel Review

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 281-296

  Duberley, Joanne ^a,d,e   Mallon, Mary ^b   Cohen, Laurie ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e Economic and Social Research Council ESRC   (United Kingdom)

^f ESRC

Author keywords

Career development; Careers; Managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645804224     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480610656694     Document Type: Article

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