... values remained relatively stable across the transition period. Originality/value These findings highlight the university-to-work transition as a critical context for shifts in work values and extend existing evidence on their dynamic nature to a non-Western setting using multi-wave longitudinal data...

... to as the university-to-work transition). It aims to unravel how these orientations emerge and evolve in the context of international mobility. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on a one-year qualitative longitudinal study with 25 Chinese graduates educated in the Netherlands, we collected data through a series...