This book explores critical perspectives on ageing in organisations and offers both managerial and workplace practices for dealing with this prominent issue. The collection provides cross-disciplinary research on the discursive and mythological aspects of ageing at work as well as recent studies...

Foreword -- Part I: The International Value of Doctorate Degrees on the Labor Market -- Part II: Doctorate Holders: Employment Outcome and Mobility -- Part III: Human Resources in Science and Technology and Their Professional Carrers -- Part IV: Conclusions.

A significant amount of German and French career agents are involved with international careers. Applying Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, Matthias Walther compares the repatriation of German and French career agents into the external labor markets of their parent country career fields. A...

Auf der Basis ihrer Gespräche mit 21 Partnerinnen und Prinzipalinnen der zehn größten Management-Beratungen analysiert Laura Sophie Dornheim, welche Rolle das Geschlecht in der Karriere von Unternehmensberaterinnen spielt. Geschlecht wird dabei aus einer konstruktivistischen Perspektive...