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Constructing scientific careers: change, continuity and context
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posted on 2009-06-23, 13:10 authored by Joanne Duberley, Laurie Cohen, Mary MallonThis paper examines the ways in which public sector research scientists make sense
of and seek to develop their careers within their current organizational, policy, social
and cultural contexts. It argues that to access such understandings, both structure and
agency and the relationship between them need to be considered. Using empirical
evidence from research in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, this paper further
develops Barley’s (1989) structuration model of career. It highlights the diverse (and
frequently intersecting) institutional contexts in which research scientists seek to
develop their careers, and their characteristic modes of engagement with such
contexts, and utilizes the concept of career scripts to illustrate the dynamic interaction
between these dimensions.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Citation
DUBERLEY, J., COHEN, L. and MALLON, M., 2006. Constructing scientific careers: change, continuity and context. Organization Studies, 27 (8), pp. 1131-1151Publisher
© Sage PublicationsVersion
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Publication date
2006Notes
This article is Restricted Access. It was published in the journal, Organization Studies [© Sage]. The definitive version is available at: http://oss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/8/1131ISSN
0170-8406Language
- en