New careers , more complex careers ?
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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 alternatives, and configuration, i.e. stability of work content and professional relations) are examined with regard to their complexity. The results show that the complexity of careers for the 1990s cohort is generally higher than for the 1970s cohort. Furthermore, the results obtained suggest that the career paths of both cohorts along the two dimensions mentioned above are not random but form a complex yet deterministic system.
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