Career Success Schemas and their Contextual Embeddedness: A Comparative Configurational Perspective

Robert Kaše; Nicky Dries; Jon Briscoe; Richard D. Cotton; Eleni Apospori; Silvia Bagdadli; K. Övgü Çakmak-Otluoğlu; Katharina Chudzikowski; Anders  Dysvik; Martina Gianecchini; Richa Saxena; Yan Shen; Marijke Verbruggen; Olusegun Babalola; Tania Casado; Jean-Luc Cerdin; Najung Kim; Sushanta  Kumar Mishra; Fei Zhangfeng

doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12218

Career Success Schemas and their Contextual Embeddedness: A Comparative Configurational Perspective

Robert Kaše
, Nicky Dries
, Jon Briscoe
, Richard D. Cotton
, Eleni Apospori
, Silvia Bagdadli
, K. Övgü Çakmak-Otluoğlu
, Katharina Chudzikowski
, Anders Dysvik
, Martina Gianecchini
, Richa Saxena
, Yan Shen
, Marijke Verbruggen
, Olusegun Babalola
, Tania Casado
, Jean-Luc Cerdin
, Najung Kim
, Sushanta Kumar Mishra
, Fei Zhangfeng

University of Ljubljana
KU Leuven
Northern Illinois University
University of Victoria
Athens University of Economics and Business
Bocconi University
Istanbul University
BI Norwegian Business School
Università di Padova
Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad
Pan-Atlantic University
University of São Paulo
ESSEC Business School
Kookmin University
Indian Institute of Management Indore
Donghua University

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Abstract

We introduce career success schema as a critical concept for understanding how people in different contexts perceive and understand career success.
Using a comparative configurational approach, we show, in a study of thirteen 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 two-by-two taxonomy of career success schemas at the country level. We contribute to the understanding of subjective careers across countries and across levels, discuss their importance for organizational career systems in MNEs, and propose specific guidelines for future comparative careers
research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	422-440
Number of pages	19
Journal	Human Resource Management Journal
Volume	30
Issue number	3
Early online date	29 Nov 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12218
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2020

Keywords

career success schemas
configurational approach
culture and institutional factors
taxonomy
QCA

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Kaše , R, Dries, N, Briscoe, J, Cotton, RD, Apospori, E, Bagdadli, S, Çakmak-Otluoğlu, KÖ, Chudzikowski, K, Dysvik, A, Gianecchini, M, Saxena, R, Shen, Y, Verbruggen, M, Babalola , O, Casado, T, Cerdin, J-L, Kim, N, Kumar Mishra, S & Zhangfeng, F 2018, 'Career Success Schemas and their Contextual Embeddedness: A Comparative Configurational Perspective' Human Resource Management Journal . which has been published in final form at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12218. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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- Management - Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
- Strategy & Organisation - Senior Lecturer
- International Centre for Higher Education Management (ICHEM)
- Centre for Future of Work
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Kaše , R., Dries, N., Briscoe, J., Cotton, R. D., Apospori, E., Bagdadli, S., Çakmak-Otluoğlu, K. Ö., Chudzikowski, K., Dysvik, A., Gianecchini, M., Saxena, R., Shen, Y., Verbruggen, M., Babalola , O., Casado, T., Cerdin, J.-L., Kim, N., Kumar Mishra, S., & Zhangfeng, F. (2020). Career Success Schemas and their Contextual Embeddedness: A Comparative Configurational Perspective. Human Resource Management Journal , 30(3), 422-440. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12218

Kaše , R, Dries, N, Briscoe, J, Cotton, RD, Apospori, E, Bagdadli, S, Çakmak-Otluoğlu, KÖ, Chudzikowski, K, Dysvik, A, Gianecchini, M, Saxena, R, Shen, Y, Verbruggen, M, Babalola , O, Casado, T, Cerdin, J-L, Kim, N, Kumar Mishra, S & Zhangfeng, F 2020, 'Career Success Schemas and their Contextual Embeddedness: A Comparative Configurational Perspective', Human Resource Management Journal , vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 422-440. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12218

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