Special Issue on Careers in cross-cultural perspective

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(2005), "Special Issue on Careers in cross-cultural perspective", Career Development International, Vol. 10 No. 6/7. https://doi.org/10.1108/cdi.2005.13710faa.001

Special Issue on Careers in cross-cultural perspective

Submission deadline: 1 February 2006

Although the existence of international differences in career patterns and practices has been long recognized, studies of career development and career management tend to take an individualistic or US perspective best suited to the pursuit of professional and managerial careers in developed countries. However, understanding alternative models of career from different international and ethnic backgrounds, where values and institutions are different, may assist in the modification of career management in the US and other settings. It may also provide diversity of thinking and inform career behavior, counseling and management practice and employment policies. For example, viewing careers as being collective rather than individualized may generate new visions of how to build and preserve teams and foster loyalty.

In order to contribute to the growing consideration of cross-cultural career phenomena, Career Development International will be publishing the Special Issue, "Careers in cross-cultural perspective", in February 2007. The Special Issue will be co-edited by Kerr Inkson (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Svetlana Khapova (University of Twente, The Netherlands). Submissions are invited that would introduce alternative career models and career practices from different locations around the world. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcomed. Priority will be given to those papers that will link new concepts of career to various individual, cultural, counseling, and management outcomes.

The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2006. Manuscripts should be 5,000-7,000 words in length and formatted in the journal's housestyle (see www.emeraldinsight.com/journals/cdi/notes.htm). Authors are asked to submit their papers solely by e-mail as Microsoft Word attachments to:

Professor Kerr InksonUniversity of OtagoNew ZealandE-mail: KInkson@business.otago.ac.nz

This special issue is scheduled provisionally for publication as Vol. 12 No. 1, 2007 of the journal.