Gender, professional networks, and subjective career success within early academic science careers: The role of gender composition in inside and outside departmental support networks

Journal of Personnel Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 121-130

  Spurk, Daniel ^a   Meinecke, Annika L ^a   Kauffeld, Simone ^a   Volmer, Judith ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Career; Gender; Networking; Networks; Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957608958     PISSN: 18665888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000131     Document Type: Article

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