Crossing Boundaries in “Boundaryless Careers”: Implications for Organizations and Employees

The trend of increasingly boundaryless careers means that individuals’ work lives are characterized by greater mobility across more jobs and organizations than ever before. This heightened intra- and inter-organizational mobility has important implications for both organizations and individuals. The papers we have brought together in this symposium address important questions regarding the implications boundaryless careers have for both individuals and organizations. These papers offer novel insights into how inter- and intra-organizational competition for human capital ultimately influences employee mobility within and between organizations, as well as how mobile employees experience their transitions between jobs and organizations as a function of their cumulative experiences and the organizational and job contexts they are entering. Tit for Tat? Predicting Retributive Hiring in Diversified Firms Presenter: Huimiao Zheng; U. of Cincinnati Presenter: Rhett Andrew Brymer; U. of Cincinnati Advance ‘Em to Attract ‘Em: An argument against internal talent hoarding Presenter: JR Keller; Cornell U. Presenter: Kathryn Dlugos; Penn State U. Beyond Boundaryless: Toward a friction-based model of career transitions Presenter: Gina Dokko; U. of California, Davis Presenter: Winnie Jiang; INSEAD In defense of job hopping?Overcoming the portability of performance paradox through greater mobility Presenter: Rebecca Rheinhardt Kehoe; Cornell U. Presenter: Frederick Scott Bentley; U. of Delaware