Publications

Related Faculty

Jose-Luis Alvarez

Senior Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Keywords

Shared Career; Boundaryless Career; Career Life Cycle; Agency;Communion

Journal Article

At the Crossroads of Agency and Communion: Defining the Shared Career

Svejenova S., Vives L., Alvarez J. (2010). At the Crossroads of Agency and Communion: Defining the Shared Career Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31(5), pp. 707-725.

At the Crossroads of Agency and Communion: Defining the Shared Career This article extends the predominant depiction of careers as individual undertakings and advances insights on collective careers.

It defines the shared career as the co-evolving sequence of work collaboration and jointly pursued career opportunities by two or more career actors.

It proposes that this new career construct mixes agency and communion. Furthermore, it conceptualizes a life cycle model of shared careers, using supporting illustrations.

Finally, it articulates how focusing on shared careers could open up avenues for the advancement of research on boundaryless careers.

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