Another road to IT turnover: The entrepreneurial path

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 498-521

  Mourmant, Gaëtan ^a,b   Gallivan, Michael J ^b   Kalika, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ecole de Management de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

IT entrepreneurial turnover; Necessary configuration to quit; Readiness to quit; Turnover; Unfolding model of voluntary turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249139443     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2009.37     Document Type: Article

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