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The transition from organisational employment to portfolio working: Perceptions of `boundarylessness'

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posted on 2009-06-18, 13:22 authored by Laurie Cohen, Mary Mallon
The focus of this paper is the transition of managers and professionals out of organisational employment into portfolio work. The interest in this individual transition is its resonance with wider debates about the changing nature of career. The demise of the traditional hierarchical career is widely predicted as is its replacement by a proliferation of more fluid and individual career choices, encompassed in the over-arching notion of the boundaryless career. The two studies on which this paper is based have taken an in-depth look at individuals who appear to exemplify this move out of organisational employment and into more independent working. The paper draws inductively on interviews with individuals who had left organisations to set up on their own. Hence the data is grounded in the accounts of individuals and seeks to explore their interpretations of their experiences. The paper focuses on participants’ expectations of their new employment context and its realities. In considering the major implications of these findings, it questions dualistic conceptualisations of career and argues for theoretical frameworks based more on synthesis and linkage.

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School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Citation

COHEN, L. and MALLON, M., 1999. The transition from organisational employment to portfolio working: Perceptions of `boundarylessness'. Work, Employment & Society, 13 (2), pp. 329–352

Publisher

© Sage

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  • NA (Not Applicable or Unknown)

Publication date

1999

Notes

This article is Restricted Access. It was published in the journal, Work, Employment & Society [© Sage]. The definitive version is available at: http://wes.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/2/329

ISSN

0950-0170

Language

  • en

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