The boundaryless career : a new employment principle for a new organizational era / edited by Michael B. Arthur, Denise M. Rousseau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arthur, Michael B. (Michael Bernard), 1945-

Rousseau, Denise M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Career development.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

x, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Boundaryless Career as a New Employment Principle / Michael B. Arthur, Denise M. Rousseau 3

I Exploring the Nature of Boundaryless Careers 21

2 Beyond Boundaries: Open Labor Markets and Learning in Silicon Valley / AnnaLee Saxenian 23

3 Enactment and the Boundaryless Career: Organizing as We Work / Karl E. Weick 40

4 Careers in Project Networks: The Case of the Film Industry / Candace Jones 58

5 Careers Change as Organizations Learn / David F. Robinson, Anne S. Miner 76

II The Competitive Advantages of Knowledge Based in Boundaryless Careers 95

6 Twenty-First-Century Careers / Raymond E. Miles, Charles C. Snow 97

7 Boundaryless Contexts and Careers: A Competency-Based Perspective / Robert J. DeFillippi, Michael B. Arthur 116

8 Prometheus Stretches: Building Identity and Cumulative Knowledge in Multiemployer Careers / Ted Baker, Howard E. Aldrich 132

9 Careers as Repositories of Knowledge: Considerations for Boundaryless Careers / Allan Bird 150

III The Social Structure of Boundaryless Careers 169

10 Subjectivism, Discovery, and Boundaryless Careers: An Austrian Perspective / Jerry Ellig, Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery 171

11 Boundaryless Careers and Social Capital / Holly J. Raider, Ronald S. Burt 187

12 Global Boundaryless Careers: Lessons from Chinese Family Businesses / Cherlyn Skromme Granrose, Bee Leng Chua 201

13 The Rhetoric of Boundaryless

Or, How the Newly Empowered Managerial Class Bought into Its Own Marginalization / Paul M. Hirsch, Mark Shanley 218

IV Personal Development and Growth along the Boundaryless Career Path 235

14 Psychological Success and the Boundaryless Career / Philip H. Mirvis, Douglas T. Hall 237

15 Challenging the Last Boundary: Reconnecting Work and Family / Joyce K. Fletcher, Lotte Bailyn 256

16 Mentoring and the Boundaryless Career: Lessons from the Minority Experience / David Thomas, Monica Higgins 268

17 Feminization at Work: Career Implications / Nanette Fondas 282

V Social Institutions in the New Organizational Era 295

18 The Bounded Career and the Demise of the Civil Society / Charles Perrow 297

19 Community-Based Careers and Economic Virtue: Arming, Disarming, and Rearming the Springfield, Western Massachusetts, Metalworking Region / Michael H. Best, Robert Forrant 314

20 Occupations, Organizations, and Boundaryless Careers / Pamela S. Tolbert 331

21 Moving In, Up, or Out: Tournaments and Other Institutional Signals of Career Attainments / James E. Rosenbaum, Shazia Rafiullah Miller 350

22 Conclusion: A Lexicon for the New Organizational Era / Michael B. Arthur, Denise M. Rousseau 370.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

019510014X

095149580

OCLC:

34878882