Contextualizing entrepreneurship in the boundaryless career

Gender in Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-81

  Hytti, Ulla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Career development; Dismissal; Entrepreneurialism; Finland; Gender; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649103558     PISSN: 17542413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17542411011019931     Document Type: Article

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