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The Boundaryless Career Michael B. Arthur (Professor of Management, School of Management, Professor of Management, School of Management, Suffolk University)

The Boundaryless Career By Michael B. Arthur (Professor of Management, School of Management, Professor of Management, School of Management, Suffolk University)

Summary

Explains the impact on traditional careers of the widespread reorganization that firms are undertaking to meet global competition.

The Boundaryless Career Summary

The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era by Michael B. Arthur (Professor of Management, School of Management, Professor of Management, School of Management, Suffolk University)

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 other ways to reduce costs, they frequently lay off workers. Job security has been replaced by insecurity and workers have been forced to take charge of their own career development in ways they have never done before. The contributors to the book analyse the implications for these workers, who now have boundaryless careers. While many find the challenge rewarding as they find new opportunities for growth, others are finding it difficult to adapt to new jobs in new locations. The book looks at policy issues that can provide safety nets for those who are not able to find a place in the new world of boundaryless careers.

The Boundaryless Career Reviews

A fascinating, timely and formidably knowledgeable collection of original scholarly papers taking career studies into the coming century. The Boundaryless Career is something of a one-volume Encyclopedia on the changing nature of contemporary occupations and organizations. * John Van Maanen, Erwin Schell Professor of Organization Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
...an exciting, important contribution to career literature, presenting ideas from thirty-four authors...The editors have gathered impressive, well-informed, thoughtful authors, who present their ideas with clarity and vigor. * Human Resource Planning *
...Arthur and Rousseau (and the contributing scholars) are to be appluaded. This is a volume that will serve as the basis for future research on the career changes we are currently experiencing. The Boundaryless Career is an important work that makes a crucial contribution to the literature on careers. * Personnel Psychology *
...an important source for those exploring career theory, network analysis, organizational learning, and industry evolution. * Administrative Science Quarterly *
A fascinating, timely and formidably knowledgeable collection of original scholarly papers taking career studies into the coming century. The Boundaryless Career is something of a one-volume Encyclopedia on the changing nature of contemporary occupations and organizations. * John Van Maanen, Erwin Schell Professor of Organization Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *

Table of Contents

Contributors 1: Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. Rousseau: Introduction: The Boundaryless Career as New Employment Principle I. Exploring the Nature of Boundaryless Careers 2: AnnaLee Saxenian: Beyond Boundaries: Open Labor Markets and Learning in Silicon Valley 3: Karl . Weick: Enactment and the Boundaryless Career: Organizing as We Work 4: Candace Jones: Careers in project Networks: The Case of the Film Industry 5: David F. Robinson and Anne S. Miner: Careers Change as Organizations Learn II. The Competitive Advantages of Knowledge Based in Boundaryless Careers 6: Raymond E. Miles and Charles C. Snow: Twenty-First-Century Careers 7: Robert J. DeFillippi and Michael B. Arthur: Boundaryless Contexts and Careers: A Competency-Based Perspective 8: Ted Baker and Howard E. Aldrich: Prometheus Stretches: Building Identity and Cumulative Knowledge in Multiemployer Careers 9: Allan Bird: Careers as Repositories of Knowledge: Considerations for Boundaryless Careers III. The Social Structure of Boundaryless Careers 10: Jerry Ellig and Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery: Subjectivism, Discovery, and Boundaryless Careers: An Austrian Perspective 11: Holly J. Raider and Ronald S. Burt: Boundaryless Careers and Social Capital 12: Cherlyn Skromme Granose and Bee Leng Chua: Global Boundaryless Careers: Lessons from Chinese Family Businesses 13: Pual M. Hirsch and Mark Shanley: The Rhetoric of Boundaryless - Or, How the Newly Empowered Managerial Class Bought into Its Own Marginalization IV. Personal Development and Growth along the Boundaryless Careers Path 14: Philip H. Mirvis and Douglas T. Hall: Psychological Success and the Boundaryless Career 15: Joyce K. Fletcher and Lotte Bailyn: Challenging the Last Boundary: Reconnecting Work and Family 16: David Thomas and Monica Higgins: Mentoring and the Boundaryless Career: Lessons from the Minority Experience 17: Nanette Fondas: Feminization at Work: Career Implications V. Social Institutions in the New Organizational Era 18: Charles Perrow: The Bounded Career and the Demise of the Civil Society 19: Michael H. Best and Robert Forrant: Community-Based Careers and Economic Virtue: Arming, Disarming, and Rearming the Springfield, Western Massachusetts, Metalworking Region 20: Pamela S. Tolbert: Occupations, Organizations, and Boundaryless Careers 21: James E. Rosenbaum and Shazia Rafiullah Miller: Moving In, Up, or Out: Tournaments and Other Institutional Signals of Career Attainments 22: Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. Rousseau: Conclusion: A Lexicon for the New Organizational Era Index

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NPB9780195100143
9780195100143
019510014X
The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era by Michael B. Arthur (Professor of Management, School of Management, Professor of Management, School of Management, Suffolk University)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
1996-11-14
404
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