Career Development International: Volume 19 Issue 6

The boundaryless career at 20: where do we stand, and where can we go?

Michael B. Arthur

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on a broad body of work that responds to the boundaryless career concept, first introduced in 1993, and to anticipate new…

Organizational boundaries and beyond: A new look at the components of a boundaryless career orientation

Martin Gubler, John Arnold, Crispin Coombs

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new conceptualization of the boundaryless career – a widely acknowledged contemporary career concept – that reflects its original…

Coping with career boundaries and boundary-crossing in the graduate labour market

Belgin Okay-Somerville, Dora Scholarios

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and role of career boundaries for enabling/constraining career self-management (CSM) for occupational boundary-crossing…

Boundarylessness as a dynamic construct: the case of Chinese early career expatriates

Christian Yao, Kaye Thorn, Noeleen Doherty

The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic nature of boundaryless careers of Chinese early career corporate expatriates. It also investigates the demographic and…

Effects of employees’ career competencies development on their organizations: Does satisfaction matter?

Chen Fleisher, Svetlana N. Khapova, Paul G.W. Jansen

This paper examines the effects of the development of employees’ career competencies (knowing-why, knowing-how, and knowing-whom) on the employing organization and…

Time to change: the added value of an integrative approach to career research

Françoise Dany

The purpose of this paper is to call for an integrative approach to career research aiming to avoid both fragmentation and closure of the field through the discussion of a…

Beyond the duality between bounded and boundaryless careers: new avenues for careers research

David Guest, Ricardo Rodrigues