Explaining company-level influences on individual career choices: towards a transitional career pattern? Evidence from Belgium

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Explaining company-level influences on individual career choices: towards a transitional career pattern? Evidence from Belgium

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N. SOENS
A. DE VOS
D. BUYENS ()

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Although current career literature continues to build on the new career concepts that reflect a shift from ‘traditional’ towards ‘transitional’ career patterns, recent research presents a different reality. In Belgium, among other countries, the traditional career pattern remains the dominant picture on the labour market. This study seeks to explain this discrepancy between theory and practice by focussing on the meso-organizational influences on career choices of individuals. Drawing on Schmid’s model of a transitional labour market, this qualitative empirical research explores the factors at company level that individuals point to as obstructing or facilitating career transitions. Results show that the existence of obstructing determinants at company level is one of the reasons why the ‘transitional career’ hasn’t become reality on the Belgian labour market yet. Implications for practitioners and policy makers are discussed.

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Paper provided by Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in its series Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium with number 06/397.

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Length: 42 pages
Date of creation: Jun 2006
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- Soens, N. & De Vos, A. & Buyens, D., 2006. "Explaining company-level influences on individual career choices: towards a transitional career pattern? Evidence from belgium," Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Working Paper Series 2006-25, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. [Downloadable!]

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Hendrik P Van Dalen & Kène Henkens, 2005. "The Double Standard in Attitudes toward Retirement – The Case of the Netherlands," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan Journals, vol. 30(4), pages 693-710, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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A. De Vos & K. Dewettinck & D. Buyens, 2006. "To Move or Not to Move? The Relationship between Career Management and Preferred Career Moves," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 06/393, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. [Downloadable!]
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- De Vos, A. & Dewettinck, K. & Dirk Buyens, 2006. "To move or not to move? The relationship between career management and preferred career moves," Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Working Paper Series 2006-20, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. [Downloadable!]

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