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ORGANIZATION STUDIES
卷 33, 期 3, 页码 323-340出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611435600
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boundary; boundaryless career; career; critique; organizational career; theory
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Boundaryless career theories are increasingly prominent in career studies and management studies, and provide a new 'status quo' concerning modern careers. This paper contextualizes the boundaryless careers literature within management studies, and evaluates its contributions, including broadening concepts of career and focusing interorganizational career phenomena. It acknowledges the considerable stimulus given to career studies by this literature, but also offers a critique based on five issues: inaccurate labelling; loose definitions; overemphasis on personal agency; the normalization of boundaryless careers; and poor empirical support for the claimed dominance of boundaryless careers. Because these problems render the boundaryless career concept increasingly obsolete as a 'leading edge' construct in career studies, we offer new directions for theory and research. In particular we re-examine the role of career boundaries, and suggest the development of new, boundary-focused careers scholarship based on boundary theory, to facilitate studies of the processes whereby career boundaries are created, and their effects in constraining, enabling and punctuating careers.
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