Analyzing the impact of protean and boundaryless career attitudes upon their individual and organizational consequencesan insight onto subjective career success, affective and continuance organizational commitment

  1. ENACHE, CRISTINA MIHAELA
Supervised by:
  1. José María Sallán Leyes Director

Defence university: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Fecha de defensa: 02 February 2009

Committee:
  1. Joan Mundet Hiern Chair
  2. Eulàlia Griful Secretary
  3. Josep María Rosanas Martí Committee member
  4. José Figueiredo Almaca Committee member

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 275487 DIALNET

Abstract

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