Temporary derailment or the end of the line? managers coping with unemployment at 50

Organization Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1687-1712

  Gabriel, Yiannis ^a   Gray, David E ^b   Goregaokar, Harshita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

career narratives; identity; job loss; narrative coping; psychological trauma; storytelling methodology; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650357468     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840610387237     Document Type: Article

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