Sub-theme 21: Bricolaging Careers – (Re)Imagining Meaningful Careers for ‘the Good Life’ -> HYBRID!
Convenors:
Katharina Chudzikowski, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Alexandra Bristow, The Open University, United Kingdom
Angelika Schmidt, WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_DX 6
Moving beyond Templates: Perspectives on Career Change
Chair: Katharina Chudzikowski, Alexandra Bistrow and Angelika Schmidt
Maria Adamson and Elisabeth Kelan
Role modelling success? How professional women engage with ‘superstar’ executives’ constructions of career success
Discussant(s): Renu Gupta, Gill Kirton and Suki Sian
Renu Gupta, Suki Sian and Gill Kirton
Temporal signification of careers and return-to-work barriers: Experiences of professional women
Discussant(s): Maria Adamson and Elisabeth Kelan
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_DX 6
Relational Aspects on Careers
Chair: Sarah Robinson
Katharina Hug, Katharina Chudzikowski and Stefanie Gustafsson
Contributing to the good life? A Bourdieusian perspective on how participation in employee activism shapes professionals’
careers
Discussant(s): Carlos Azevedo, Caroline Clarke and Alexandra Bristow
Guillaume Nau
The journey to the 'good life': A life calendar study of interim managers' career development and resilience
Discussant(s): Katharina Hug, Katharina Chudzikowski and Stefanie Gustafsson
Srumita Narzary, Upam Makhecha and Upam Pushpak Makhecha
Sustainable careers and access to technology: A conceptual model
Discussant(s): Claire Schulze Schleithoff and Dilek Uslu
Session III: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_DX 6
Creating Inclusion and (un)Sustainable Careers
Chair: Alexandra Bistrow
Claire Schulze Schleithoff and Dilek Uslu
Exploring the fluctuation of calling experiences in the context of diversity and inclusion practitioners
Discussant(s): Srumita Narzary and Upam Makhecha
Ling Zhang, Julie Hagan, Isabelle Martin, Tony Edwards and Isabelle Martin
The tempered radicals? Bricolaging careerists on disability inclusion in multinational enterprises
Discussant(s): Anisia Bucur
Anisia Bucur
Sustainable careers, unsustainable jobs? A ‘career imagination’ perspective on choices, constraints, and tradeoffs in entering
extreme careers
Discussant(s): Ling Zhang, Julie Hagan, Isabelle Martin and Tony Edwards
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_DX 6
Caring and Transforming Careers
Chair: Axel Haunschild
Marijke Verbruggen, Fida Afiouni, Maike Andresen, Petra Eggenhofer-Rehart, Hugh Gunz, Mila Lazarova, Astrid Reichel, Lea Katharina Reiss, Bryndis Steindorsdottir, Eleni Apospori, Janine Bosak, K. Övgü Çakmak-Otluoğlu, Jean-Luc Cerdin, Emma Parry, Richa Saxena, Pamela A. Suzanne and Mami Taniguchi
Taking charge while taking care? A multi-country study examining the effects of gender, parental status, and goals on proactive
career behaviors
Discussant(s): Aparna Pasumarthy and Andromachi Athanasopoulou
Jennifer Tomlinson, Susan M. Durbin, Stella Warren and Jack Daly
In search of the good life? Experiences of executives and senior managers navigating reduced hours in the UK
Discussant(s): Anett Hermann and Marie-Therese A. Claes
Aparna Pasumarthy, Andromachi Athanasopoulou and Gill Kirton
Striving to thrive? Exploring success, sustainable careers and the pursuit of the good life
Discussant(s): Jennifer Tomlinson, Susan Durbin, Stella Warren and Jack Daly
Session V: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_DX 6
Moves, Hope and Expectations
Chair: Katharina Chudzikowski
Béatrice Parguel, Marine Agogué and Julie Gauneau
When Matilda shows up: The double edge sword of making women visible in management research
Discussant(s): Kerstin Martel
Gesine Hahn and Berber Pas
Creating good life in new hybrid positions: Narratives of research managers and administrators
Discussant(s): Elina Meliou and Ana Lopes
Elina Meliou and Ana Lopes
Hope Labour and the Event: Hopeful transformations in the careers of contingent academics.
Discussant(s): Marine Agogué, Beatrice Parguel and Julie Gauneau
Kerstin Martel
Making
moves meaningful: Intersecting mobilities and rhizomatic compositions for the
good life
Discussant(s): Gesine Hahn and Berber Pas
Session VI: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_DX 6
(Re)Imagining the ‘Good Life’ through Change Perspectives
Chair: Angelika Schmidt
Andrea Toarniczky and Réka Matolay
Doing good life with and for others as reflected in social entrepreneurs’ career narratives
Discussant(s): Susan Scott, Shaila Miranda and Jaime Windeler
Susan Scott, Jaime Windeler and Shaila M. Miranda
Overemployment: How remote virtual work provides the conditions of possibility for (re)imagining ‘the Good Life’
Discussant(s): Soodabeh Mansoori, Jelena Zikic and Viktoriya Voloshyna
Soodabeh Mansoori, Jelena Zikic and Viktoriya Voloshyna
Alternative careers of skilled migrants: Looking for new meanings amid identity transitions
Discussant(s): Andrea Toarniczky and Réka Matolay
Anett Hermann and Marie-Therese A. Claes
Flexible work as an opportunity and risk for the careers of women with care responsibilities
Discussant(s): Marijke Verbruggen et al.
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_DX 6
Creating and Crafting: Bricolaging Careers in Art
Chair: Angelika Schmidt
Axel Haunschild, Hannah Speicher and Verena Tobsch
Career bricolage in the independent performing arts: A mélange of meaningfulness, self-exploitation and social security threats
Discussant(s): Paloma Ozier
Paloma Ozier
Cruel optimism: Hope and future faking in London's creative industries
Discussant(s): Axel Haunschild, Hannah Speicher and Verena Tobsch
Session VIII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, Magistero – Centrale – 0_DX 6
Feminist Readings and Career Agency
Chair: Sarah Robinson
Wan Nur Amira Rahmat
A postcolonial feminist reading of women’s career aspirations in transnational corporate Malaysia
Discussant(s): Fabien Canolle and Isabelle Corbett-Etchevers
Fabien Canolle and Isabelle Corbett-Etchevers
Career beyond dualism: A bricolage perspective on career agency
Discussant(s): Wan Nur Amira Rahmat