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Using March and Simon's (1958) participation model as a framework, this study employs the 1973–77 Quality of Employment Survey panel data to compare the determinants of intraorganizational and interorganizational job change. Two discriminant functions were significant, the first distinguishing between intraorganizational changers and stayers and the second between interorganizational changers and stayers. Moreover, the variables that distinguished between intraorganizational changers and stayers were either different from or opposite in influence to those distinguishing between interorganizational changers and stayers.
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Doering, M., Rhodes, S.R. Intraorganizational and interorganizational job change: A discriminant analysis. J Bus Psychol 11, 151–170 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02193857
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