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"I want to move once I have got things straight": Voluntary sector chief executives' career accounts.
Abstract
This article reports investigation into chief executives' career
perceptions, experiences, and aspirations in small and medium-sized
organizations in England, using career history and biographical
narrative techniques. Career accounts from sixty chief
executives-twenty--seven women and thirty-three men--were gathered and
analyzed, drawing on career theory and typologies of career
characterization. A typology for voluntary sector chief executives'
career stances was developed: the Paid Philanthropists, the
Careerists, and the Nonaligned. Within this typology, women chief
executives appeared as predominantly Careerists, outnumbering male
chief executives by two to one. Implications for developing career
theory in voluntary sector contexts is discussed and directions for
future research suggested. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all
rights reserved) (journal abstract)
Journal
(2005)
vol16
no1
pages79-100
Categories
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Financing and Evaluting NGOs
