Navigating careers into retirement: A narrative perspective on conflicting logics

Heike Schroeder, Katharina Chudzikowski

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Abstract

This paper seeks to enhance our understanding of how individuals in the teaching profession navigate their late careers and work-retirement transitions in the context of organizational practices and retirement policies. We do so by exploring narratives on career practices deployed in their late careers. Specifically, we draw on the perspective of life course theory (Elder, Kirkpatrick Johnson, & Crosnoe, 2003) and institutional logics (Thornton & Ocasio, 2008) and explore how individuals construct practices to shape their work-retirement transitions analysing how these practices relate to and reproduce field-wide templates for careers in the institutional, professional and organisational field of teaching profession. We will first discuss the literature on retirement transitions and its influences as well as individuals’ practices to shape this transitions and follow up with our theoretical perspectives on institutional logics.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusAcceptance date - 26 Feb 2021
Event37th EGOS Colloquium 2021: Organizing for a Inclusive Society: Meanings, Motivations, and Mechanisms - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 8 Jul 202110 Jul 2021

Conference

Conference37th EGOS Colloquium 2021
Abbreviated titleEGOS
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period8/07/2110/07/21

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