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Rethinking the Career Anchors Inventory framework with insights from a finance transformation field study

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  • Lambert, Stephanie A.
  • Herbert, Ian P.
  • Rothwell, Andrew T.

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It is claimed that the re-engineering and automation of routine work should free accountants to adopt broader, so-called ‘value-adding’ roles as partners to business decision-makers. The ‘new world of work’, involving new process-based methods, single instance ERP systems and the wholesale relocation of professional work to lower cost areas, brings opportunities for accountants in systems design and adding value to the business. For many others, the new reality may be a more competitive and less secure working environment, with a mid-level career bottleneck reflecting a polarisation between the upper and lower layers of the finance function.

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  • Lambert, Stephanie A. & Herbert, Ian P. & Rothwell, Andrew T., 2020. "Rethinking the Career Anchors Inventory framework with insights from a finance transformation field study," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 52(2).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:bracre:v:52:y:2020:i:2:s0890838919300873
    DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2019.100862
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