Employability and the psychological contract in European ICT sector SMEs

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1035-1055

  Scholarios, Dora ^a   Van der Heijden, Beatrice ^b   Van der Schoot, Esther ^b   Bozionelos, Nikos ^c   Epitropaki, Olga ^d   Jedrzejowicz, Piotr ^e   Knauth, Peter ^f   Marzec, Izabela ^g   Mikkelsen, Aslaug ^h   Van der Heijde, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d European Group for Organizational Studies and British Academy of Management   (Greece)

^e GDYNIA MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^g KATOWICE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Career management; Employability; ICT sector; Psychological contract

Indexed keywords

EID: 46949093668     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190802051337     Document Type: Article

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