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Career Success in Different Countries: Reflections on the 5C Project

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Career studies have, at best, partly kept pace with the enormous rise of international work. While on virtually all accounts such as volume of international business transactions, importance of organizations operating across national and cultural boundaries or individuals pursuing an international or global career indicators point towards growth, the body of career-related research on this has not grown to the same extent. With the exception of expatriation and its various facets such as classic expatriation (Bader et al. 2016), self-initiated expatriation (Andresen et al. 2013) or migration (Solimano 2010), systematic research about various aspects of careers in different countries and cultures, in particular in a comparative sense (Lazarova et al. 2012), has only started to emerge.

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    Jon Briscoe

  2. Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK

    Michael Dickmann & Emma Parry

  3. Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

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  4. WU Vienna, Wien, Austria

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Briscoe, J., Dickmann, M., Hall, T., Parry, E., Mayrhofer, W., Smale, A. (2018). Career Success in Different Countries: Reflections on the 5C Project. In: Dickmann, M., Suutari, V., Wurtz, O. (eds) The Management of Global Careers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76529-7_5

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