Protean and boundaryless careers as metaphors

By Kerr Inkson. 2006

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Subfields: Education, Media Technology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Advances in Career Theory and Research: A Critical Review and Agenda for Future Exploration (2009, background): “The author(s) received no financial support for the research and/or authorship of this article.”
Protean and boundaryless career attitudes and organizational commitment: The effects of perceived supervisor support (2012, background): “Even though Arthur (1994) has noted that there are multiple meanings beyond this general meaning, the reviewed literature demonstrates that the boundaryless career is typically examined with regard to crossing organizational boundaries and is characterized by physical mobility (Inkson, 2006).”
Plodders, pragmatists, visionaries and opportunists: career patterns and employability (2009, background): “Both models link career success to a flexible and adaptive approach to career in which the emphasis is on maintaining employability through inter-organisational moves, life-long learning, a transactional psychological contract and career self-management ( Inkson, 2006”
Executive Career Management: Switching Organizations and the Boundaryless Career (2007, background): “While there are a number of career-based articles that present and discuss concepts of boundaryless careers (i.e., Arthur & Rousseau, 1996; Briscoe & Hall, 2006; Inkson, 2006; Sullivan &Arthur, 2006), there are only a few studies that empirically examine career issues using this framework (e.”
Comparing apples to apples: a qualitative investigation of career mobility patterns across four generations (2012, background): “Other researchers have argued that the distinction between traditional and modern careers relies on overly simplistic archetypal caricatures of career types that may never have been representative of career norms (Inkson, 2006; Rodrigues and Guest, 2010).”
Explaining Entrepreneurial Intentions by Means of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (2008, background): “Inkson (2006) notes that it may be more accurate to speak of a boundary-crossing, as boundaries still exist.”
Psychological Capital and Career Outcomes among Final Year University Students: the Mediating Role of Career Engagement and Perceived Employability (2020, background): “This is in addition to changing career and employment relations (Forrier et al. 2015), specifically in the growing service economy (Dall’erba et al. 2009; Gohmann et al. 2008) and the emphasis on protean careers (De Vos and Soens 2008; Hall 1996; Inkson 2006).”
Proactivity, adaptability and boundaryless career attitudes: The mediating role of entrepreneurial alertness (2015, background): “However, studies that tease apart the distinction between boundaryless and self-directed protean career attitudes are surprisingly limited, to the extent that some scholars even use them interchangeably (e.g., Harrison, 2006; Inkson, 2006).”
Contemporary career orientations and career self-management: A review and integration (2021, background): “Inkson (2006) Journal of Vocational Behavior 124 Theory Develops a theoretical account of protean and boundaryless careers as metaphors and how this metaphor has been used in the scientific literature.”
Examining contemporary careers: A call for interdisciplinary inquiry (2008, background): “As various commentators have pointed out, in different circumstances it might have been better to talk about boundary-crossing careers (Inkson, 2006; King et al., 2005).”
Smart Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Algorithms (STARA): Employees’ perceptions of our future workplace (2017, background): “Inkson summarised what is happening to careers by stating that ‘ the old picture of stable employment and associated organizational careers is fading ’ (2006: 297).”
Self‐initiated expatriation and self‐initiated expatriates: Clarification of the research stream (2013, background): “The critical point here, therefore, is that SIE academic careers and perhaps SIE careers more broadly may be less about boundarylessness than about boundary crossing (Inkson, 2006).”
The Psychology of Careers in Industrial - Organizational Settings: A Critical but Appreciative Analysis (2008, unknown): “…story and narrative approaches (Bosley, Arnold & Cohen, 2007; Bujold, 2004; Platman, 2004), discourse analysis (Coupland, 2004; Cohen, Arnold, Wilkinson & Finn, 2005), metaphors (El-Sawad, 2005; Inkson, 2006; Mignot, 2004) and family and life histories (Schulteiss, Kress, Manzi & Glasscock, 2001).”