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Boundaryless career success: distinguished professors in academia

Boundaryless career success: distinguished professors in academia
Boundaryless career success: distinguished professors in academia
The unpredictable nature of today's workplace and the changing environment within which the organizations function makes it a challenge to prescribe pre-determined stable careers. To respond to the contingencies of the new context for work, the boundaryless career, defined as “the evolving sequence of a person’s work experiences over time” (Arthur, Hall, & Lawrence, 1989 , p. 8) was proposed. The purpose of this qualitative study is to illustrate what it takes to be successful while maintaining a boundaryless career. We focus on the careers of eleven distinguished professors (DPs) recounted by themselves and their spouses. Adopting the intelligent career framework, we present the interrelationships between the three ways of knowing that lead to success in academia.
Beigi, Mina
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Shirmohammadi, Melika
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Arthur, Michael
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Beigi, Mina
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Shirmohammadi, Melika
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Arthur, Michael
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Beigi, Mina, Shirmohammadi, Melika and Arthur, Michael (2016) Boundaryless career success: distinguished professors in academia. In In Academy of Management Proceedings. vol. 2016 (doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2016.16800abstract).

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Abstract

The unpredictable nature of today's workplace and the changing environment within which the organizations function makes it a challenge to prescribe pre-determined stable careers. To respond to the contingencies of the new context for work, the boundaryless career, defined as “the evolving sequence of a person’s work experiences over time” (Arthur, Hall, & Lawrence, 1989 , p. 8) was proposed. The purpose of this qualitative study is to illustrate what it takes to be successful while maintaining a boundaryless career. We focus on the careers of eleven distinguished professors (DPs) recounted by themselves and their spouses. Adopting the intelligent career framework, we present the interrelationships between the three ways of knowing that lead to success in academia.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 30 November 2016
Published date: 2016

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Local EPrints ID: 413792
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/413792
PURE UUID: d9979d15-81e5-407b-8f6c-ec73732433cc
ORCID for Mina Beigi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4866-7205

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Date deposited: 06 Sep 2017 16:31
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:31

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Author: Mina Beigi ORCID iD
Author: Melika Shirmohammadi
Author: Michael Arthur

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