External labor market strategy and career success: Ceo careers in Europe and the United States

Human Resource Management

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 355-378

  Hamori, Monika ^a   Kakarika, Maria ^b  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Career success; Chief executives; Employer change; Job tenure

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650242681     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20285     Document Type: Article

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