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Employability and the psychological contract in European ICT sector SMEs

Dora Scholarios Department of Human Resource Management, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, ScotlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Beatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden Department of Human Resource Management, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Esther Van der Schoot Department of Human Resource Management, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Nikos Bozionelos Durham Business School, University of Durham, Durham, UK
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Olga Epitropaki ALBA Graduate Business School, Vouliagmeni, Greece
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Piotr Jedrzejowicz Faculty of Business Administration, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland
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Peter Knauth Institut für Industriebetriebslehre und Industrielle Production, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Izabela Marzec Katowice School of Economics, Katowice Piotrowice, Poland
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Aslaug Mikkelsen Stavanger University College, Stavanger, Norway
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Claudia M. Van der Heijde Department of Human Resource Management, University of Twente, Enschede, The NetherlandsView further author information
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Pages 1035-1055 | Published online: 12 Jun 2008

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Elizabeth Solberg & Anders Dysvik. (2016) Employees' perceptions of HR investment and their efforts to remain internally employable: testing the exchange-based mechanisms of the ‘new psychological contract’. The International Journal of Human Resource Management 27:9, pages 909-927.
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