The Boundaryless Career A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era

by Arthur, Michael B.; Rousseau, Denise M.

• ISBN13: 9780195100143
• ISBN10: 019510014X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Organizational restructuring and global, hypercompetition have revolutionized careers and destroyed the traditional blueprint for advancement and career success. This book details the new forms work takes in the new organizational era where worker mobility has become critical to the well-being and learning of both people and firms. The Boundaryless Career approaches the new principle of the boundaryless career in five directions. The first section helps the reader explore the nature of boundarlyess careers by highlighting some of their essential elements. The second section turns to competitive advantage and the role of workers' knowledge. The thirs section concentrates on the role of the social structure in the organizing of work. The fourth section turns to focus on how boundaryless careers affect personal development and growth. The fifth section addresses the demands boundaryless careers create for schools, communities, and other social institutions. Introductory and concluding chapters by the editors offer frameworks for conceptualizing careers now and in the future. The Boundarly Career provides a conceptual map of new career and employment forms to the prospective benefit of people making career choices, companies re-crafting human resource practices, schools and universities re-considering their roles, and policy-makers concerned with regional or national competitiveness. It will be essential reading for scholars in a range of social science disciplines spanning themes of economics, management, education, organizational behavior, and the psychology and sociology of work. It will also appeal broadly to free thinkers interested in the changing nature of careers and employment as both people and firms tackle the realities of increasingly open markets and global competition.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction: The Boundaryless Career as a New Employment Principle	3	(18)
Michael B. Arthur
Denise M. Rousseau
I Exploring the Nature of Boundaryless Careers	21	(74)
Beyond Boundaries: Open Labor Markets and Learning in Silicon Valley	23	(17)
AnnaLee Saxenian
Enactment and the Boundaryless Career: Organizing as We Work	40	(18)
Karl E. Weick
Careers in Project Networks: The Case of the Film Industry	58	(18)
Candace Jones
Careers Change as Organizations Learn	76	(19)
David F. Robinson
Anne S. Miner
II The Competitive Advantages of Knowledge Based in Boundaryless Careers	95	(74)
Twenty-First-Century Careers	97	(19)
Raymond E. Miles
Charles C. Snow
Boundaryless Contexts and Careers: A Competency-Based Perspective	116	(16)
Robert J. DeFillippi
Michael B. Arthur
Prometheus Stretches: Building Identity and Cumulative Knowledge in Multiemployer Careers	132	(18)
Ted Baker
Howard E. Aldrich
Careers as Repositories of Knowledge: Considerations for Boundaryless Careers	150	(19)
Allan Bird
III The Social Structure of Boundaryless Careers	169	(66)
Subjectivism, Discovery, and Boundaryless Careers: An Austrian Perspective	171	(16)
Jerry Ellig
Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery
Boundaryless Careers and Social Capital	187	(14)
Holly J. Raider
Ronald S. Burt
Global Boundaryless Careers: Lessons from Chinese Family Businesses	201	(17)
Cherlyn Skromme Granrose
Bee Leng Chua
The Rhetoric of Boundaryless--Or, How the Newly Empowered Managerial Class Bought into Its Own Marginalization	218	(17)
Paul M. Hirsch
Mark Shanley
IV Personal Development and Growth along the Boundaryless Career Path	235	(60)
Psychological Success and the Boundaryless Career	237	(19)
Philip H. Mirvis
Douglas T. Hall
Challenging the Last Boundary: Reconnecting Work and Family	256	(12)
Joyce K. Fletcher
Lotte Bailyn
Mentoring and the Boundaryless Career: Lessons from the Minority Experience	268	(14)
David Thomas
Monica Higgins
Feminization at Work: Career Implications	282	(13)
Nanette Fondas
V Social Institutions in the New Organizational Era	295	(88)
The Bounded Career and the Demise of the Civil Society	297	(17)
Charles Perrow
Community-Based Careers and Economic Virtue: Arming, Disarming, and Rearming the Springfield, Western Massachusetts, Metalworking Region	314	(17)
Michael H. Best
Robert Forrant
Occupations, Organizations, and Boundaryless Careers	331	(19)
Pamela S. Tolbert
Moving In, Up, or Out: Tournaments and Other Institutional Signals of Career Attainments	350	(20)
James E. Rosenbaum
Shazia Rafiullah Miller
Conclusion: A Lexicon for the New Organizational Era	370	(13)
Michael B. Arthur
Denise M. Rousseau
Index	383