Career success schemas and their contextual embeddedness: A comparative configurational perspective
Author ORCID Identifier
Jon Briscoe:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7044-0034
Publication Title
Human Resource Management Journal
ISSN
09545395
E-ISSN
44013
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Abstract
We introduce career success schemas as critical for understanding how people in different contexts perceive and understand career success. Using a comparative configurational approach, we show, in a study of 13 countries, that two structural characteristics of career success schemas—complexity and convergence—differ across country contexts and are embedded in specific configurations of institutional factors. Adopting complexity and convergence as primary dimensions, we propose a taxonomy of career success schemas at the country level. Based on this taxonomy, we contribute to the understanding of subjective career success across countries, discuss the importance of schemas for organisational career systems in multinational enterprises, and propose specific guidelines for future comparative careers research.
First Page
422
Last Page
440
Publication Date
7-1-2020
DOI
10.1111/1748-8583.12218
Keywords
career success schema, cognitive mapping, configurational approach, institutional context, QCA, taxonomy
Recommended Citation
Kaše, Robert; Dries, Nicky; Briscoe, Jon P.; Cotton, Richard D.; Apospori, Eleni; Bagdadli, Silvia; Çakmak-Otluoğlu, K. Övgü; Chudzikowski, Katharina; Dysvik, Anders; Gianecchini, Martina; Saxena, Richa; Shen, Yan; Verbruggen, Marijke; Adeleye, Ifedapo; Babalola, Olusegun; Casado, Tania; Cerdin, Jean Luc; Kim, Najung; and Mishra, Sushanta Kumar, "Career success schemas and their contextual embeddedness: A comparative configurational perspective" (2020). NIU Bibliography. 491.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/niubib/491
Department
Department of Management
