Careers in cities: An interdisciplinary space for advancing the contextual turn in career studies

Abstract

With careers increasingly taking place within and between cities, this article maps the territory for research and theory on careers in cities. Cities present a microcosm for advancing a systemic understanding of people’s careers over time and in relation to broader issues. We acknowledge cities’ multilayered contexts by identifying six spheres—locality and networks, material infrastructure, economic activities, non-work, virtual reconfiguration, and nexus of social change. The interplay between careers and these city spheres informs intertwined phenomena such as well-being, mobility, and migration. To guide further research, our framework distinguishes two meta-theoretical perspectives. An entity perspective examines causal relationships across levels, analyzing how urban characteristics explain career-related phenomena, and vice versa. A constructionist perspective examines how people’s construal of careers in cities draws on cultural repertoires about work, non-work life, and the city, including its social, symbolic, and material aspects. We use the framework to discuss contributions of the five articles of this special issue. A career lens can contribute to our understanding of cities being sources of both stability and change. With cities currently facing significant disruptions, there has never been a more appropriate time for careers researchers to incorporate the city as context.

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“…Basic metaphor Features of our model, we visualize the power of electricity and the decline of the machine throughout the human heart during its heart cycle. Comparing our imitation with the common heart metrics function, we extract the pressure-volume relationship and show that it fits well with clinical observations [5]. The proposed modeling and analysis concept is explained in detail.…”

Can high-performance work practices influence employee career competencies? There is a need for better employee outcomes in the banking industry

“…Career competencies are presumed to play a vital role in upholding the employee’s worth to the organization [ 33 ]. Service quality, creative performance, and extra-role performance are the three imperative employee outcomes of career competencies tested in this study.…”

Towards Career Sustainability: A Systematic Review to Guide Future Research

“…The career ecosystem theory captures both the structural and agentic nature of careers. Recent studies have shed light on structural issues by assuming cities to be career ecosystems (Curseu et al, 2021;Tams et al, 2021). Cities have a high density of organizations of various segments and different sectoral specialties that drive specific work opportunities and access to resources that foster the sustainability of different types of careers (Kozhevnikov, 2021;Montanari et al, 2021).…”