Should I stay or should I go? Career choice intentions of students with family business background

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 521-536

  Zellweger, Thomas ^a   Sieger, Philipp ^a   Halter, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Career choice intentions; Motives; Theory of mixed control; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957636112     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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