Interfirm mobility and career success of knowledge workers

Authors

  • Yulia P. Povarnitsyna National Research University — Higher School of Economics, 20, Myasnitskaya str., Moscow 101000, Russian Federation https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0561-2271

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2020.204

Abstract

The paper presents a critical review of studies concerned with the relationship between interfirm mobility of knowledge workers and their objective and subjective career success. Within the context of discussions regarding employment standardization and the individualization of life trajectories, nonlinear career paths based on high mobility of workers during their life are attracting attention of researchers. From the perspective of the “new” career theories and
theories of post-industrialism, high mobility is associated with achieving greater career success compared to a traditional career. The ability to stay mobile is considered not only as a condition for adapting to the realities of the modern labor market, but also as accumulation of unique human and social capital acquired through work experience in different companies. The opposite point of view postulates that stability is still more valued by the best workers. Potential
risks and losses associated with mobile behavior may be too high, allowing those who adhere to the model of long-term labor relations be at an advantage. In the paper the author summarizes the results of existing empirical studies within given research field, examining the impact of physical and psychological mobility of workers on the indicators of their objective and subjective career success. Changes in the level of income and job position are used as indicators
of objective success. Subjective success includes perceived career success, career satisfaction, satisfaction by achievement and non-achievement aspects of work, perceived employability, work engagement, work-life balance satisfaction and overall well-being. A comparison of the research results confirms the controversy of theoretical views on the role of interfirm mobility in career. The author offers promising areas of possible research and brings forward
the opportunities for further research of this issue.

Keywords:

interfirm mobility, career success, boundaryless career, knowledge workers

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.
 

References

Литература

Хэнди Ч. По ту сторону уверенности: о новом мире внутри и вокруг организаций / пер. с англ. С. Жильцов. СПб.: Питер, 2002.

Бауман З. Идентичность в глобализирующемся мире. URL: https://tovievich.ru/book/meropriatiya/5585-zbauman-identichnost-v-globaliziruyushchemsya-mire.html (дата обращения: 05.03.2019).

Ng T. W. H., Sorensen K. L., Eby L. T., Feldman D. C. Determinants of job mobility: A theoretical integration and extension // Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 2007. Vol. 80, no. 3. P. 363–386.

Defillippi R. J., Arthur M. B. The boundaryless career: A competency-based perspective // Journal of Organizational Behavior. 1994. Vol. 15, no. 4. P. 307–324.

Stumpf S. A. A longitudinal study of career success, embeddedness, and mobility of early career professionals // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2014. Vol. 85, no. 2. P. 180–190.

Colakoglu S. N. The impact of career boundarylessness on subjective career success: The role of career competencies, career autonomy, and career insecurity // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2011. Vol. 79, no. 1. P. 47–59.

Benson J., Brown M. Knowledge workers: what keeps them committed; what turns them away // Work, Employment and Society. 2007. Vol. 21, no. 1. P. 121–141.

Кастельс М. Информационная эпоха: экономика, общество и культура / пер. с англ., под науч. ред. О. И. Шкаратана. М.: ГУ ВШЭ, 2000.

Donnelly R. Career behavior in the knowledge economy: Experiences and perceptions of career mobility among management and IT consultants in the UK and the USA // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2009. Vol. 75, no. 3. P. 319–328.

Guan Y., Arthur M. B., Khapova S. N., Hall R. J., Lord R. G. Career boundarylessness and career success: A review, integration and guide to future research // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2019. Vol. 110. P. 390–402.

Гидденс Э. Модерн и самоидентичность / Реф. Е. В. Якимовой // Современная теоретическая социология. М.: ИНИОН РАН, 1995.

Woodman D. The mysterious case of the pervasive choice biography: Ulrich Beck, structure/agency, and the middling state of theory in the sociology of youth // Journal of Youth Studies. 2009. Vol. 12, no. 3. P. 243–256.

Mendenhall R., Kalil A., Spindel L. J., Hart C. M. D. Job Loss at Mid-life: Managers and Executives Face the «New Risk Economy» // Social Forces. 2008. Vol. 87, no. 1 (87). P. 185–209.

Evetts J. Dimensions of Career: Avoiding Reification in the Analysis of Change // Sociology. 1992. Vol. 26, no. 1. P. 1–21.

Wilensky H. L. Work, Careers and Social Integration // International Social Science Journal. 1960. Vol. 12, no. 4 . P. 543–560.

Arthur M. B., Hall D. T., Lawrence B. S. Generating new directions in career theory: The case for a transdisciplinary approach // Ed. by M. B. Arthur, D. T. Hall, B. S. Lawrence. Handbook of Career Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. P. 7–24.

Седых А. Б. Карьерная мобильность личности в контексте современных воззрений на карьеру // Человек. Сообщество. Управление. 2012. № 2. C. 54–66.

Arthur M. B., Rousseau D. M. The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era / Ed. by M. B. Arthur, D. M. Rousseau. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Eby L. T., Butts M., Lockwood A. Predictors of success in the era of the boundaryless career // Journal of Organizational Behavior. 2003. Vol. 24, no. 6. P. 689–708.

Sullivan S. E., Arthur M. B. The evolution of the boundaryless career concept: Examining physical and psychological mobility // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2006. Vol. 69, no. 1. P. 19–29.

Feldman D. C., Ng T. W. H. Careers: Mobility, Embeddedness, and Success // Journal of Management. 2007. Vol. 33, no. 3. P. 350–377.

Grand C. le, Tåhlin M. Job Mobility and Earnings Growth // European Sociological Review. 2002. Vol. 18, no. 4. P. 381–400.

Briscoe J. P., Hall D. T., Frautschy DeMuth R. L. Protean and boundaryless careers: An empirical exploration // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2006. Vol. 69, no. 1. P. 30–47.

Latzke M., Kattenbach R., Schneidhofer Th., Schramm F., Mayrhofer W. Consequences of voluntary job changes in Germany: A multilevel analysis for 1985–2013 // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2016. Vol. 93. P. 139–149.

Kovalenko M., Mortelmans D. Does career type matter? Outcomes in traditional and transitional career patterns // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2014. Vol. 85, no. 2. P. 238–249.

Эфендиев А. Г., Балабанова Е. С., Галицкий Е. Б. Результаты и проблемы подготовки современного специалиста сквозь призму карьерного роста выпускников-менеджеров // Вопросы образования. 2009. № 4. С. 133–153.

Chudzikowski K. Career transitions and career success in the ‘new’ career era // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2012. Vol. 81, no. 2 . P. 298–306.

Рощин С. Ю., Слесарева А. А. Межфирменная мобильность молодых работников на российском рынке труда: препринт WP15/2012/03. М.: Изд. дом Высшей школы экономики, 2012.

Gerli F., Bonesso S., Pizzi C. Boundaryless career and career success: the impact of emotional and social competencies // Frontiers in Psychology. 2015. Vol. 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01304.

Cheramie R. A., Sturman M. C., Walsh K. Executive career management: Switching organizations and the boundaryless career // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2007. Vol. 71, no. 3. P. 359–374.

Hamori M., Kakarika M. External labor market strategy and career success: CEO careers in Europe and the United States // Human Resource Management. 2009. Vol. 48, no. 3. P. 355–378.

Verbruggen M. Psychological mobility and career success in the ‘New’ career climate // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2012. Vol. 81, no. 2. P. 289–297.

Pavlopoulos D., Fouarge D., Muffels R., Vermunt J. K. Who Benefits from a Job Change: The dwarfs or the giants? // European Societies. 2014. Vol. 16, no. 2. P. 299–319.

Кастельс. М. С. Галактика Интернет: Размышления об Интернете, бизнесе и обществе. Екатеринбург: У-Фактория (при участии изд-ва Гуманитарного ун-та), 2004.

Суптело Н. П. Особенности функционирования специфического человеческого капитала в российской экономике // Транспортное дело России. 2015. № 2. C. 16–17.

Dries N., Van Acker F., Verbruggen M. How ‘boundaryless’ are the careers of high potentials, key experts and average performers? // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2012. Vol. 81, no. 2. P. 271–279.

Gesthuizen M., Dagevos J. Mismatching of persons and jobs in the Netherlands: consequences for the returns to mobility // Work, Employment and Society. 2008. Vol. 22, no. 3. P. 485–506.

Cмирных Л. И. Удовлетворенность работой. Кто выигрывает: стабильные или мобильные работники? M. : Изд. дом ВШЭ, 2008.

Ильин В. И. Профессия как индивидуальная жизненная колея: концептуализация категории // Журнал исследований социальной политики. 2015. Т. 13, № 4. C. 515–528.

Rodrigues R., Guest D., Teresa O., Kerstin A. Who benefits from independent careers? Employees, organizations, or both? // Journal of Vocational Behavior. 2015. Vol. 91. P. 23–34.

Dobrev S. D., Merluzzi J. Stayers versus movers: Social capital and early career imprinting among young professionals // Journal of Organizational Behavior. 2018. Vol. 39, no. 1. P. 67–81.

Pearce J. L., Randel A. E. Expectations of organizational mobility, workplace social inclusion, and employee job performance // Journal of Organizational Behavior. 2004. Vol. 25, no. 1. P. 81–98.

Kuen C. M., Nesbit P. L., Ahlstrom D. The Boundaryless Career Form: Its Nature and Driving Forces // Employment Relations Record. 2013. Vol. 13, no. 2. P. 44–55.


References

Handy Ch. Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations. St. Petersburg, Piter Publ., 2002. (In Russian)

Bauman Z. Identity in the Globalizing World. Available at: https://tovievich.ru/book/meropriatiya/5585-zbauman-identichnost-v-globaliziruyushchemsya-mire.html (accessed: 05.03.2019). (In Russian)

Ng T. W. H., Sorensen K. L., Eby L. T., Feldman D. C. Determinants of job mobility: A theoretical integration and extension. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2007, vol. 80, no. 3, pp. 363–386.

Defillippi R. J., Arthur M. B. The boundaryless career: A competency-based perspective. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 1994, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 307–324.

Stumpf S. A. A longitudinal study of career success, embeddedness, and mobility of early career professionals. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2014, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 180–190.

Colakoglu S. N. The impact of career boundarylessness on subjective career success: The role of career competencies, career autonomy, and career insecurity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 47–59.

Benson J., Brown M. Knowledge workers: what keeps them committed; what turns them away. Work, Employment and Society, 2007, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 121–141.

Castells M. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Moscow, Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics, 2000. (In Russian)

Donnelly R. Career behavior in the knowledge economy: Experiences and perceptions of career mobility among management and IT consultants in the UK and the USA. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2009, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 319–328.

Guan Y., Arthur M. B., Khapova S. N., Hall R. J., Lord R. G. Career boundarylessness and career success: A review, integration and guide to future research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2019, vol. 110, pp. 390–402.

Giddens A. Modernity and Self-Identity. Rus. Ed. Abstract by E. V. Yakimova, Contemporary theoretical sociology, ed. by Yu.A. Kimeleva. Moscow, INION RAN Publ., 1995. (In Russian)

Woodman D. The mysterious case of the pervasive choice biography: Ulrich Beck, structure/agency, and the middling state of theory in the sociology of youth. Journal of Youth Studies, 2009, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 243–256.

Mendenhall R., Kalil A., Spindel L. J., Hart C. M. D. Job Loss at Mid-life: Managers and Executives Face the “New Risk Economy”. Social Forces, 2008, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 185–209.

Evetts J. Dimensions of Career: Avoiding Reification in the Analysis of Change. Sociology, 1992, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 1–21.

Wilensky H. L. Work, Careers and Social Integration. International Social Science Journal, 1960, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 543–560.

Arthur M. B., Hall D. T., Lawrence B. S. Generating new directions in career theory: The case for a transdisciplinary approach. Handbook of Career Theory. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 7–24.

Sedyh A. B. Individual career mobility in the context of modern views on career. Chelovek. Soobshchestvo. Upravlenie, 2012, no. 2, pp. 54–66. (In Russian)

Arthur M. B., Rousseau D. M. The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001, 412 p.

Eby L. T., Butts M., Lockwood A. Predictors of success in the era of the boundaryless career. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2003, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 689–708.

Sullivan S. E., Arthur M. B. The evolution of the boundaryless career concept: Examining physical and psychological mobility. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 19–29.

Feldman D. C., Ng T. W. H. Careers: Mobility, Embeddedness, and Success. Journal of Management, 2007, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 350–377.

Grand C., Tåhlin M. Job Mobility and Earnings Growth. European Sociological Review, 2002, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 381–400.

Briscoe J. P., Hall D. T., Frautschy DeMuth R. L. Protean and boundaryless careers: An empirical exploration. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 30–47.

Latzke M., Kattenbach R., Schneidhofer Th., Schramm F., Mayrhofer W. Consequences of voluntary job changes in Germany: A multilevel analysis for 1985–2013. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2016, vol. 93, pp. 139–149.

Kovalenko M., Mortelmans D. Does career type matter? Outcomes in traditional and transitional career patterns. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2014, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 238–249.

Efendiev A. G., Balabanova E. S., Galickij E. B. Results and problems in training of modern professional through the lens of business graduates career growth. Voprosi obrazovaniia, 2009, no. 4, pp. 133–153.(In Russian)

Chudzikowski K. Career transitions and career success in the ‘new’ career era. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 298–306.

Roshchin S. Y., Slesareva A. A. Job Mobility of Young Workers on the Russian Labor Market, Working paper WP15/2012/03. Moscow, Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics, 2012. 52 p. (In Russian)

Gerli F., Bonesso S., Pizzi C. Boundaryless career and career success: the impact of emotional and social competencies. Frontiers in Psychology, 2015. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01304 (accessed: 01.04.2019).

Cheramie R. A., Sturman M. C., Walsh K. Executive career management: Switching organizations and the boundaryless career. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 359–374.

Hamori M., Kakarika M. External labor market strategy and career success: CEO careers in Europe and the United States. Human Resource Management, 2009, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 355–378.

Verbruggen M. Psychological mobility and career success in the ‘New’ career climate. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 289–297.

Pavlopoulos D., Fouarge D., Muffels R., Vermunt J. K. Who Benefits from a Job Change: The dwarfs or the giants? European Societies, 2014, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 299–319.

Castells M. The Internet Galaxy. Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society. Rus. Ed. Yekaterinburg, U-Faktoriya Publ. (pri uchastii izd-va Gumanitarnogo un-ta), 2004. 328 p. (In Russian)

Suptelo N. P. Peculiarities of specific human capital functioning in Russian economy. Transportnoe delo Rossii, 2015, no. 2, pp. 16–17. (In Russian)

Dries N., Van Acker F., Verbruggen M. How ‘boundaryless’ are the careers of high potentials, key experts and average performers? Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 271–279.

Gesthuizen M., Dagevos J. Mismatching of persons and jobs in the Netherlands: consequences for the returns to mobility. Work, Employment and Society, 2008, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 485–506.

Smirnykh L. I. Job Satisfaction: who wins stable or mobile workers? Working paper WP15/2008/02. Moscow, Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics, 2008. (In Russian)

Il’in V. I. Profession is an individual life track: conceptualization of the category. Zhurnal issledovanii sotsial’noi politiki, 2015, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 515–528. (In Russian)

Rodrigues R., Guest D., Teresa O., Kerstin A. Who benefits from independent careers? Employees, organizations, or both? Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2015, vol. 91, pp. 23–34.

Dobrev S. D., Merluzzi J. Stayers versus movers: Social capital and early career imprinting among young professionals. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2018, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 67–81.

Pearce J. L., Randel A. E. Expectations of organizational mobility, workplace social inclusion, and employee job performance. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2004, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 81–98.

Kuen C. M., Nesbit P. L., Ahlstrom D. The Boundaryless Career Form: Its Nature and Driving Forces. Employment Relations Record, 2013, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 44–55.

Downloads

Published

2020-09-23

How to Cite

Povarnitsyna, Y. P. . (2020). Interfirm mobility and career success of knowledge workers. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 13(2), 161–173. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu12.2020.204

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2020): Vestnik of Saint-Petersburg University. Sociology

Section

Sociology of labor and professions

License

Articles of "Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology" are open access distributed under the terms of the License Agreement with Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted distribution and self-archiving free of charge.