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Boundaryless career and career success: the impact of emotional and social competencies

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015
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Title
Boundaryless career and career success: the impact of emotional and social competencies
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01304
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Authors

Fabrizio Gerli, Sara Bonesso, Claudio Pizzi

Abstract

Even though, over the last two decades, the boundaryless career concept has stimulated a wide theoretical debate, scholars have recently claimed that research on the competencies that are necessary for managing a cross-boundary career is still incomplete. Similarly, the literature on emotional and social competencies has demonstrated how they predict work performance across industries and jobs but has neglected their influence in explaining the individual's mobility across boundaries and their impact on career success. This study aims to fill these gaps by examining the effects of emotional and social competencies on boundaryless career and on objective career success. By analyzing a sample of 142 managers over a period of 8 years, we found evidence that emotional competencies positively influence the propensity of an individual to undertake physical career mobility and that career advancements are related to the possession of social competencies and depend on the adoption of boundaryless career paths. This study also provides a contribution in terms of the evaluation of the emotional and social competencies demonstrated by an individual and of the operationalization of the measurement of boundaryless career paths, considering three facets of the physical mobility construct (organizational, industrial, and geographical boundaries).

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Country Count As %
Unknown 132 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 13%
Student > Bachelor 15 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 10%
Lecturer 8 6%
Researcher 6 5%
Other 26 20%
Unknown 47 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 32 24%
Psychology 23 17%
Social Sciences 9 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Other 14 11%
Unknown 50 38%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 August 2017.
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#13,955,130
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#304
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