Career Frontiers: New Conceptions of Working Lives

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The topic of careers has become both increasingly important and increasingly complex. Contemporary economies have bought about changes in the nature of careers, and uncertainty in the structure and longevity of firms and their ability to offer long-term employment. Corporate policy-makers struggle with alternatives to traditional employment structures, while individuals struggle to decide whether and how they ought to become more independent of such structures, pursuing what some have called 'post-corporate' or 'boundaryless' careers. This volume is an integrated survey of some of the best current thinking and research on careers. Presented as a series of chapters by an international group of experts and knit together through themes and dialogues, it advances our understanding of the deeper meaning of changes in careers, and of the interrelationships and longer-term consequences of those changes.

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The topic of careers has become both increasingly important and increasingly complex. Contemporary economies have bought about changes in the nature of careers, and uncertainty in the structure and longevity of firms and their ability to offer long-term employment. Corporate policy-makers struggle with alternatives to traditional employment structures, while individuals struggle to decide whether and how they ought to become more independent of such structures, pursuing what some have called 'post-corporate' or 'boundaryless' careers. This volume is an integrated survey of some of the best current thinking and research on careers. Presented as a series of chapters by an international group of experts and knit together through themes and dialogues, it advances our understanding of the deeper meaning of changes in careers, and of the interrelationships and longer-term consequences of those changes.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 09 Mar 2000
ISBN 10: 0198296924
ISBN 13: 9780198296928

Media Reviews

A terrific collection that takes us beyond the media hype, providing insight and thoughtful commentary on the changing nature and meaning of careers. Barbara S. Lawrence, Professor, The Anderson School at UCLA

Author Bio

Maury A. Peiperl is Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Careers Research Initiative at the Centre for Organisational Research, London Business School. Michael B. Arthur is Professor of Management at the Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Organisational Research, London Business School. Rob Goffee is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Innovation Exchange at the Centre for Organisational Research, London Business School. Tim Morris is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Centre for Organisational Research, London Business School, and leader of research projects on the management of change and the management of knowledge in professional service firms.