Sub-theme 01: (SWG) Career Studies and their Context: Societal Impacts and their Impacts on Society
Convenors:
Hugh Gunz, University of Toronto, Canada
Wolfgang Mayrhofer, WU University of Economics and Business, Austria
Polly Parker, University of Queensland, Australia
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, B4
Professional Careers across the Globe
Chair: Hugh Gunz, Polly Parker & Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Aleksandra Endemann and Florian Schramm
How boundaryless are the careers of German managers and professionals?
Supriya Rakesh and Vasanthi Srinivasan
Breaking away or taking the plunge? Accounts of professionals from India making the transition out of corporate careers
Gabriela DeLuca and Sidinei Rocha-de-Oliveira
Stigma, art and commercialization: The construction of the tattoo art field in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, B4
Careers in Different National Contexts
Chair: Thomas Schneidhofer
Silvia Bagdadli and Martina Gianecchini
Facilitating and constraining factors affecting the objective career success in the Italian context
Maral Muratbekova-Touron and Dana Abeuova
Talent management of government-sponsored students in Kazakhstan: Its impact on individual careers and on society
Xiao Chen and Hugh Gunz
Cross-level dynamics between social chronology and cultural tightness-looseness on objective career success: A study of top-profile
Chinese civil servants
Agrata Pandey
Thorns in the path of choosing a career: A qualitative study in the Indian context
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, B4
Conceptualizing the Structure/Agency Debate
Chair: Joanne Duberley
Jasper Delva, Anneleen Forrier and Nele De Cuyper
Putting employability ‘into context’: Insights from Bourdieu’s theory of practice
Thomas M. Schneidhofer, Johanna Hofbauer and Ahu Tatli
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? On the agency/structure debate in careers research
Svenja Tams, Stefanie Gustafsson and Katharina Chudzikowski
Situating career agency in the everyday practice of management consulting: A being-in-the-world perspective
Maike Andresen, Eleni Apospori, Hugh Gunz, Philip Lehmann and Jon P. Briscoe
Agency and structure in careers: An international empirical study
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, B4
Contextualizing Context
Chair: Silvia Bagdadli
Laurie Cohen and Joanne Duberley
Discipline as context: What we can learn from career’s travels in different disciplinary lands
Maxim Kovalenko and Dimitri Mortelmans
Employment security in non-traditional careers: Exploring the dynamic of long-term work trajectories in thirteen European
countries
Angelika Kornblum, Dana Unger and Gudela Grote
Does context matter? The impact of individual characteristics and labor market changes on career mobility
Petra Eggenhofer-Rehart, Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Michael Schiffinger
Perceived employability and the Great Recession: Effects of the macro-economic context
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, B4
Bending or Binding?
Chair: Svenja Tams
Ralph Kattenbach, Natascha Nisic and Arlett Plantikow
Bending or being bent? Origin and nature of job search flexibility
Nanni Schleicher
Boundaryless birds? The career concepts of individuals in two-job careers
Elisa Operti and Stoyan V. Sgourev
From Montagues to Capulets? Conceptualizing and validating competitive rivalry through career mobility
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, B4
Promoting Women
Chair: Ralph Kattenbach
Dulini Fernando, Laurie Cohen and Joanne Duberley
Women, work and informal mentoring: Exploring how relationships are formed
Renuka Hodigere
Structural analysis of the under-representation of women on corporate boards
Bernadette Bullinger, Kaitlin Appleby and Anna Schneider
I am many – Women's multiple identities and their attraction to STEM employment
Fida Afiouni and Charlotte Karam
Women, patriarchy, sectarianism and war: The rise of career calling in harsh realities
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, B4
Career as a Communal Concept
Chair: Hugh Gunz, Polly Parker & Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Katharina Puchmüller
Cultural and institutional aspects related to the discourse on non-traditional career families – A cross-cultural comparison
between Austria, France and the US
Maria Gribling and Joanne Duberley
“One size fits all”? Gender and ‘convenient identities’ of academics in French and UK business schools
Mark J. Smith, Catherine Jones and Marc Humbert
Couple mobility in Societal Context –gender and the centrifugal/centripetal Parisian forces