Career Change and the Iron Cage: Organizations and the Early Labour Market Experience of Professional Managers

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 843-868

  Dobrev, Stanislav D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Careers; Corporate demography; Job tenure; Organizational size and age; Organizational structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862511213     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2011.01038.x     Document Type: Article

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