Turnover contagion: How coworkers' job embeddedness and job search behaviors influence quitting

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 545-561

  Felps, Will ^a,f   Mitchell, Terence ^b,g   Hekman, David ^c,h   Lee, Thomas ^b,g,i   Holtom, Brooks ^d,j   Harman, Wendy ^e  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

ⁱ Department of Management ^*  (United States)

^j GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67650360374     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2009.41331075     Document Type: Article

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