... in the development of a range of motives for self‐initiated mobility. The paper employs a quantitative methodology, with over 2,600 internet survey responses from highly educated New Zealanders living and working around the world. Findings The importance of the cultural and travel opportunities and career...

..., learning and “transformation” gained, and possible impact on further career; the degree of fit of experiences to the archetypal “hero's adventure”. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a longitudinal study of a cohort of 48 New Zealand volunteers starting work on NZ aid organisation Volunteer...

... observations from New Zealand are drawn on to illustrate our discussion. It is hoped that ideas discussed in this paper will aid the understandings of further dimensions and properties of the “thread” of the theory of the boundaryless career and help move forward the research agenda on the united career...

...Barbara Simpson Examines the applicability of current career theory to women scientists. Data were collected from a group of New Zealand women scientists and interpreted using the Concept Mapping technique which produces a two‐dimensional visual map of the participants′ responses. The results show...