Careers CAR

Dear All

Last year we had the first and very successful Careers Track at the fifth European Academy of Management conference (EURAM 2005). For EURAM 2006 we are seeking to build upon this success, and have developed a new Careers track, details of which are to be found in the Call for Papers.

On the EURAM site, our track can be found under heading 5, "Corporate Governance, Family Business, Corporate and Social Responsibility, Boards":

http://www.euram2006.no/

Full details of the call are below, the deadline for submission (which must be via the EURAM website) is 1 February.  Any queries don't hesitate to contact me or any of the other co-chairs.  Please forward to anyone else who might be interested.

Best regards

Yehuda Baruch


Revitalizing Career Theory and Practice - European Perspectives

Co-chairs

        John Blenkinsopp, Lecturer in Management, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Business School, UK
Email: john.blenkinsopp@ncl.ac.uk
       

Professor Dr. Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Institute of Management and Business Education, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Email: wolfgang.mayrhofer@wu-wien.ac.at
       

Professor Michael Arthur, Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, MA 02108
Email: marthur@suffolk.edu
       

Professor Yehuda Baruch, School of Management, University of East Anglia, UK
Email: Y.Baruch@uea.ac.uk

At a time when employment debates in Europe are concerned with matters such as mass outsourcing of jobs to cheaper labour markets, the impact of a major increase in immigration and a debate over the right European social model for the 21^st century, what does career literature have to offer?  The rapidly changing employment context in the advanced industrial nations has formed the backdrop to career over decades, and as such career theory has walked a tightrope between prophecy and description.  Weick's comment that careers 'rise prospectively in fragments and fall retrospectively in patterns' might equally be offered as a description of career theory.  Where concepts in career theory arise from analysis of novel and interesting innovations in the career, they implicitly paraphrase the Seiko slogan ('someday all careers will be made this way') with the inevitable risk that with hindsight these new career patterns will turn out to represent not a vision of the future but a passing trend.

Against this background, this call for papers represents an invitation both to take stock and to look to the future.  We seek papers which contribute to our understanding of how careers are developing in different contexts.  Cross-cultural and trans-national research is obviously welcomed, but important contributions can also be made by papers examining aspects of career theory in a specific national context, particularly where there is little prior research in that location.  The track will also accept innovative conceptual frameworks which look to future development of the career at individual, organizational and society levels.

 
Professor Yehuda Baruch
School of Management
UEA, Norwich, NR4 7TJ
Editor, Career Development International
Past Chair, The Careers Division, The Academy of Management

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