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The Multiple Forms and Shifting Landscapes of Global Careers

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“Every boring or mundane activity you experience at home is, when you move to a foreign country, suddenly transformed into an exciting adventure” according to Reannon Muth, a travel writer. Indeed, it has long been known that some of the key drivers for global careers are adventure, excitement and learning (Hippler 2009; Doherty et al. 2011). While global careers and these worldwide talent management and knowledge flows are key ingredients for organizational success (Scullion and Collings 2011), our understanding of international work and careers has dramatically advanced in the last decades. This book outlines a vast array of recent insights into global careers and charts this dynamic field in order to allow global careerists and their families, multinational corporations (MNCs) and other key stakeholders to make better informed decisions. In so doing, the book moves beyond the basic insights depicted above to reflect the huge diversity of global career contexts and actors.

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Dickmann, M., Suutari, V., Wurtz, O. (2018). The Multiple Forms and Shifting Landscapes of Global Careers. 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_1

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