Family influences on the career life cycle

Career Choice in Management and Entrepreneurship: A Research Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 101-126

  Alexandra Beauregard, T ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781847208828.00011     Document Type: Chapter

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