Enacting global careers: Organizational career scripts and the global economy as co-existing career referents

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 687-706

  Cappellen, Tineke ^a   Janssens, Maddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Career structuration; Global career; Global economy; Individual career management

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649468140     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.706     Document Type: Article

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