At the crossroads of agency and communion: Defining the shared career

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 707-725

  Svejenova, Silviya ^a   Vives, Luis ^a   Alvarez, José Luis ^a  

^a ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agency; Boundaryless career; Career life cycle; Communion; Shared career

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649467277     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.702     Document Type: Article

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