The Boundaryless Career

A fascinating, timely and formidably knowledgeable collection of original scholarly papers taking career studies into the coming century. The Boundaryless Career is something of a one-volume Encyclopedia on the changing nature of contemporary occupations and organizations.

• Contributors 1: Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. Rousseau: Introduction: The Boundaryless Career as New Employment Principle I. Exploring the Nature of Boundaryless Careers 2: AnnaLee Saxenian: Beyond Boundaries: Open Labor Markets and Learning in Silicon Valley 3: Karl . Weick: Enactment and the Boundaryless Career: Organizing as We Work 4: Candace Jones: Careers in project Networks: The Case of the Film Industry 5: David F. Robinson and Anne S. Miner: Careers Change as Organizations Learn II. The Competitive Advantages of Knowledge Based in Boundaryless Careers 6: Raymond E. Miles and Charles C. Snow: Twenty-First-Century Careers 7: Robert J. DeFillippi and Michael B. Arthur: Boundaryless Contexts and Careers: A Competency-Based Perspective 8: Ted Baker and Howard E. Aldrich: Prometheus Stretches: Building Identity and Cumulative Knowledge in Multiemployer Careers 9: Allan Bird: Careers as Repositories of Knowledge: Considerations for Boundaryless Careers III. The Social Structure of Boundaryless Careers 10: Jerry Ellig and Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery: Subjectivism, Discovery, and Boundaryless Careers: An Austrian Perspective 11: Holly J. Raider and Ronald S. Burt: Boundaryless Careers and Social Capital 12: Cherlyn Skromme Granose and Bee Leng Chua: Global Boundaryless Careers: Lessons from Chinese Family Businesses 13: Pual M. Hirsch and Mark Shanley: The Rhetoric of Boundaryless - Or, How the Newly Empowered Managerial Class Bought into Its Own Marginalization IV. Personal Development and Growth along the Boundaryless Careers Path 14: Philip H. Mirvis and Douglas T. Hall: Psychological Success and the Boundaryless Career 15: Joyce K. Fletcher and Lotte Bailyn: Challenging the Last Boundary: Reconnecting Work and Family 16: David Thomas and Monica Higgins: Mentoring and the Boundaryless Career: Lessons from the Minority Experience 17: Nanette Fondas: Feminization at Work: Career Implications V. Social Institutions in the New Organizational Era 18: Charles Perrow: The Bounded Career and the Demise of the Civil Society 19: Michael H. Best and Robert Forrant: Community-Based Careers and Economic Virtue: Arming, Disarming, and Rearming the Springfield, Western Massachusetts, Metalworking Region 20: Pamela S. Tolbert: Occupations, Organizations, and Boundaryless Careers 21: James E. Rosenbaum and Shazia Rafiullah Miller: Moving In, Up, or Out: Tournaments and Other Institutional Signals of Career Attainments 22: Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. Rousseau: Conclusion: A Lexicon for the New Organizational Era Index