Professional identity as the key to career change intention

Career Development International

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 584-595

  Khapova, Svetlana N ^a   Arthur, Michael B ^b   Wilderom, Celeste P m ^c   Svensson, Jörgen S ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Career development; Communication technologies; Continuing professional development; Individual behaviour; Information industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548930730     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430710834378     Document Type: Article

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