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The Boundaryless Career

1996
Abstract Including contributions from leading scholars at Harvard Business School, Yale, and MIT's Sloan School of Management, this book explores the ways that careers have changed for workers as their firms reorganize to meet global competition. As firms re-engineer, downsize, enter into strategic alliances with other firms, and find
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Boundaryless Careers and Employability Obligations

Business Ethics Quarterly, 2003
Abstract:Boundaryless careers may be beneficial to people with rare and valuable skills, but might prove harmful to many others. The idea ofemployabilityas an ethical responsibility of employers to employees is introduced; it is argued that attention to employability in private practice and public policy partially resolves the ethical problems inherent
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Boundaryless Careers and Social Capital

1996
Abstract Social capital refers to the structure of individuals’ contact networks-the pattern of interconnection among the various people with whom each person is tied. The central idea behind social capital arguments is that differences in social contexts produce inequality.
Holly J Raider, Ronald S Burt
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Career Boundaries in a ‘Boundaryless’ World

2000
Abstract Boundary less ness has become a fashionable concept in organizational analysis, perhaps because it fits the Zeitgeist. Globalization, we are constantly reminded, was the central theme of the latter part of the twentieth century. Those who do not become citizens of a boundary less, nationless world will lose their place in it.
Hugh Gunz, Martin Evans, Michael Jalland
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Protean and boundaryless careers: A study on potential motivators

Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
This paper conceptually links hypothesized scales of the Motivation Questionnaire (SHL (1992). Motivation questionnaire: Manual and users’ guide. Thames Ditton: SHL) to the underlying dimensions of the protean (values-driven and self-directedness) and boundaryless career (physical and psychological mobility) attitudes. Results of regression-analyses (N
Segers, J, Inceoglu, I, Vloeberghs, D, Bartram, D, Henderickx, E   +4 more
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Protean and boundaryless careers as metaphors

Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
Abstract The terms “protean career” and “boundaryless career” are metaphors. This paper outlines the nature of metaphor and its use in contemporary social science, particularly in the study of careers. It identifies five characteristics of metaphors, which serve as a guide to analyzing and evaluating them. These are (1) literal and figurative meaning;
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Influence of Protean and Boundaryless Career Dimensions on Career Satisfaction

Zarządzanie Zasobami Ludzkimi, 2021
The aim of the article is to assess the extent to which employee career satisfaction depends on the implementation of new career models, i.e. the protean career and the boundaryless career. In order to achieve this goal, the article reviews the literature and research in this area and formulates research hypotheses assuming the impact of each dimension
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Predictors of success in the era of the boundaryless career

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2003
AbstractThe present study examines three classes of career competencies proposed as important predictors of success in the boundaryless career. Three criteria of career success were examined: perceived career satisfaction, perceived internal marketability, and perceived external marketability.
Lillian T. Eby, Marcus Butts, Angie Lockwood   +2 more
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Occupations, Organizations, and Boundaryless Careers

1996
Abstract It does not take a particularly perspicacious observer to note that industrial societies are characterized by a wide variety of work careers-careers that are linked to very different types of labor markets and employment relationships.
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Contextualizing entrepreneurship in the boundaryless career

Gender in Management: An International Journal, 2010
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the transition into entrepreneurship is constructed in the context of the boundaryless career. The paper focuses on a particular type of career transition driven by dismissal or unemployment.
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