Boundaryless Careers: Bringing Back Boundaries

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 323-340

  Inkson, Kerr ^a   Gunz, Hugh ^b   Ganesh, Shiv ^a   Roper, Juliet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

boundary; boundaryless career; career; critique; organizational career; theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858688711     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611435600     Document Type: Article

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