Women's careers in the Arab Middle East: Understanding institutional constraints to the boundaryless career view

F Afiouni - Career Development International, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine how women academics from the Arab
Middle East enact their careers with reference to double-bounded contexts: academia as an …

Protean and boundaryless careers: Exploring the role of mentoring and gender in the context of a major African country

D E. Okurame, R Fabunmi - Career Development International, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–The study aims to explore the role of mentoring and the moderating effects of
gender on protean and boundaryless career orientations in the African albeit Nigerian …

Between the traditional and the contemporary: careers of women managers from a developing Middle Eastern country perspective

HA Tlaiss - The International Journal of Human Resource …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Informed by Institutional Theory, this study adopts an exploratory, qualitative, in-depth
interviews-based approach as it explores the self-reported career paths of 32 women …

Neither-nor: career success of women in an Arab Middle Eastern context

H Tlaiss - Employee Relations, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–Few studies examine the career success of women in the Arab Middle East. With
that in mind, the purpose of this paper is to explore the conceptualizations of the career …

Challenges for the boundaryless career odyssey

J Pringle, M Mallon - International Journal of Human Resource …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
The boundaryless career, which challenges the assumptions of the traditional hierarchical
career, has proved to be a remarkably popular and influential concept. However, we argue …

Contemporary career concepts and their fit for the Arabian Gulf context: A sector level analysis of psychological contract breach

I Forstenlechner, Y Baruch - Career Development International, 2013 - emerald.com
Purpose–The contemporary nature of careers has changed significantly in Western
societies, yet studies on the nature of this change in different cultures are sparse. The aim of …

Exploring the interplay between gender, organizational context and career: A Sri Lankan perspective

W Dulini Anuvinda Fernando, L Cohen - Career Development …, 2011 - emerald.com
Purpose–This paper aims to explore how highly skilled women workers in Sri Lanka
navigate organizational contexts via different modes of engagement in pursuit of hierarchical …

Theboundaryless' career and career boundaries: Applying an institutionalist perspective to ICT workers in the context of Nigeria

A Ituma, R Simpson - Human Relations, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing from institutional theory, this article exploresboundaryless' careers and the nature
of career boundaries in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in …

Beyond the duality between bounded and boundaryless careers: new avenues for careers research

D Guest, R Rodrigues - Career Development International, 2014 - emerald.com
Two decades have passed since the idea of the boundaryless career was introduced to the
wider audience of careers researchers (Arthur, 1994). The concept has highlighted the …

Localizing women's experiences in academia: multilevel factors at play in the Arab Middle East and North Africa

CM Karam, F Afiouni - The International Journal of Human …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This article explores the localized experiences of women at work in higher education in the
under-researched context of the Arab Middle East and North Africa. Our main research …