The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational EraMichael Bernard Arthur, Denise M. Rousseau Organizational restructuring and global, hypercompetition have revolutionized careers and destroyed the traditional blueprint for advancement and career success. This book details the new forms work takes in the new organizational era where worker mobility has become critical to the well-being and learning of both people and firms. The Boundaryless Career approaches the new principle of the boundaryless career in five directions. The first section helps the reader explore the nature of boundaryless careers by highlighting some of their essential elements. The second section turns to competitive advantage and the role of workers' knowledge. The thirs section concentrates on the role of the social structure in the organizing of work. The fourth section turns to focus on how boundaryless careers affect personal development and growth. The fifth section addresses the demands boundaryless careers create for schools, communities, and other social institutions. Introductory and concluding chapters by the editors offer frameworks for conceptualizing careers now and in the future. The Boundaryless Career provides a conceptual map of new career and employment forms to the prospective benefit of people making career choices, companies re-crafting human resource practices, schools and universities re-considering their roles, and policy-makers concerned with regional or national competitiveness. It will be essential reading for scholars in a range of social science disciplines spanning themes of economics, management, education, organizational behavior, and the psychology and sociology of work. It will also appeal broadly to free thinkers interested in the changing nature of careers and employment as both people and firms tackle the realities of increasingly open markets and global competition. |
Contents
Introduction The Boundaryless Career as a New Employment Principle | 3 |
EXPLORING THE NATURE OF BOUNDARYLESS CAREERS | 21 |
Beyond Boundaries Open Labor Markets and Learning in Silicon Valley | 23 |
Enactment and the Boundaryless Career Organizing as We Work | 40 |
Careers in Project Networks The Case of the Film Industry | 58 |
Careers Change as Organizations Learn | 76 |
THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF KNOWLEDGE BASED IN BOUNDARYLESS CAREERS | 95 |
TwentyFirstCentury Careers | 97 |
The Rhetoric of BoundarylessOr How the Newly Empowered Managerial Class Bought into Its Own Marginalization | 218 |
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH ALONG THE BOUNDARYLESS CAREER PATH | 235 |
Psychological Success and the Boundaryless Career | 237 |
Challenging the Last Boundary Reconnecting Work and Family | 256 |
Mentoring and the Boundaryless Career Lessons from the Minority Experience | 268 |
Feminization at Work Career Implications | 282 |
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE NEW ORGANIZATIONAL ERA | 295 |
The Bounded Career and the Demise of the Civil Society | 297 |
Boundaryless Contexts and Careers A CompetencyBased Perspective | 116 |
Prometheus Stretches Building Identity and Cumulative Knowledge in Multiemployer Careers | 132 |
Careers as Repositories of Knowledge Considerations for Boundaryless Careers | 150 |
THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF BOUNDARYLESS CAREERS | 169 |
Subjectivism Discovery and Boundaryless Careers An Austrian Perspective | 171 |
Boundaryless Careers and Social Capital | 187 |
Global Boundary less Careers Lessons from Chinese Family Businesses | 201 |
CommunityBased Careers and Economic Virtue Arming Disarming and Rearming the Springfield Western Massachusetts Metalworking Region | 314 |
Occupations Organizations and Boundaryless Careers | 331 |
Moving In Up or Out Tournaments and Other Institutional Signals of Career Attainments | 350 |
Conclusion A Lexicon for the New Organizational Era | 370 |
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