Careers in family business: New avenues for careers and family business research in the 21st century

Boundaryless Careers to Career Entrepreneurship: Redefining Career in 21st Century

Recent years have witnessed an overwhelming redefinition of career choices which have transcended the normal traditional boundaries. The environmental framework has played a crucial role in creating a pervading sense of temporariness and instability worldwide. There is the birth of the new age employee who wants more from the career now than decades before. The paper discusses the non-tradition...

Business Demography in the 21st Century

Murdock and Swanson (2008) observe that applied demography is evolving as the 21st century unfolds and that data bases, substantive issues and methodological approaches seldom considered just a few years ago have become mainstream concerns in the field. Making up applied demography are two subsets: (1) public sector demography; and (2) business demography. Swanson and Pol (2008) argue that alth...

New careers , more complex careers ?

The article deals with the question whether careers have indeed become more complex during the last years and/or decades by applying methods stemming from chaos research. The movements of 215 business school graduates from two different cohorts (graduation around 1970 and 1990 respectively) along two career-related dimensions (coupling, i.e. careerrelated security, dependency, and number of job...

Developing academic careers in family medicine within the Mediterranean setting.

Does it balance? Exploring family and careers in accounting

As the millennial generation enters the work place, the importance of work/life balance is becoming paramount. With more than half of accounting graduates in the country comprised of women, and the rise of dual career families, providing the appropriate balance that can mix work and family is increasingly important. For the accounting industry, does a strong work/life balance go beyond the bala...