Career fields: a small step towards a grand career theory?

By Alexander Iellatchitch, W. Mayrhofer, Michael Meyer. 2003

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Career Competencies for the Modern Career (2006, background): “Authors in the field of career development plead for research studies with practical relevance that go beyond the traditional focus of career development (Iellatchitch et al., 2003; Savickas, 2003).”
The Psychology of Careers in Industrial - Organizational Settings: A Critical but Appreciative Analysis (2008, methodology): “In the career field, this has been vividly illustrated in Inkson’s (2006) analysis of working life from a metaphorical perspective, and El-Sawad’s (2005) examination of the metaphors used by employees to describe and explain their career development within a blue chip corporation.”
The organizational career: not dead but in need of redefinition (2013, background): “As well as a change in the way careers would be managed it was also predicted that in the future careers would ‘increasingly take place either entirely or to a great extent outside organizations’ (Iellatchitch, Mayrhofer and Meyer 2003 , p.”
Examining contemporary careers: A call for interdisciplinary inquiry (2008, background): “…and Weick (1996) drawing on Giddens’s (1984) ideas on structuration (concerning the way interacting careers help shape the host social structure); Iellatchitch et al. (2003) incorporating Bourdieu’s (1986) idea of career capital (with its attention to the immediate social context with which the…”