TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper explores the overlapping domains of business/firm and family. Suggests that the descriptor of “joint careers” is preferable to that of symbiotic careers. Describes what we term the primary career and auxiliary career which often go to make up a joint career. Both strands of career are a prerequisite for the resilience and success of the family business. The example of youth entrepreneurship is dealt with to show the possibility of an inversion of the traditional roles with the parents’ career becoming ancillary to that of their offspring. Empirical observations from New Zealand are drawn on to illustrate our discussion. It is hoped that ideas discussed in this paper will aid the understandings of further dimensions and properties of the “thread” of the theory of the boundaryless career and help move forward the research agenda on the united career trajectory.
VL  - 9
IS  - 7
SN  - 1362-0436
DO  - 10.1108/13620430410570347
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/13620430410570347
AU  - de Bruin Anne
AU  - Lewis Kate
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - Toward enriching united career theory: familial entrepreneurship and copreneurship
T2  - Career Development International
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 638
EP  - 646
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -