This page gathers a selected bibliography on professional career studies, including classic authors, contemporary perspectives, and the dialogue between vocational psychology and organizational studies.
The list remains intentionally selective and follows the original logic of the site as a practical literature guide.
[selected references]
ARTHUR, M. B.; ROUSSEAU, D. M. (Ed.). The boundaryless career. Nova York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
ARTHUR, M. B. The boundaryless career: a new perspective for organizational inquiry. Journal of Organizational Behavior, v. 15, n. 4, p. 295-306, 1994.
ARTHUR, M. B.; HALL, D. T.; LAWRENCE, B. S. (Ed.). Handbook of career theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
ARTHUR, M.; INKSON, K.; PRINGLE, J. K. The new careers. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1999.
BARUCH, Y. Transforming careers: from linear to multidirectional career paths. Career Development International, v. 9, n. 1, p. 58-73, 2004.
BARUCH, Y. Career development in organizations and beyond. Human Resource Management Review, v. 16, n. 2, p. 125-138, 2006.
BLUSTEIN, D. L. Who am I?: The question of self and identity in career development. In: SAVICKAS, M. L.; LENT, R. W. (Ed.). Convergence in career development theories. Palo Alto: Consulting Psychologists, 1994. p. 139-154.
BLUSTEIN, D. L.; SCHULTHEISS, D. E. P.; FLUM, H. Toward a relational perspective of the psychology of careers and working. Journal of Vocational Behavior, v. 64, n. 3, p. 423-440, 2004.
BORGEN, W. A.; AMUNDSON, N. E.; REUTER, J. Using portfolios to enhance career resilience. Journal of Employment Counseling, v. 41, n. 2, p. 50-59, 2004.
BRISCOE, J. P.; HALL, D. T. The interplay of boundaryless and protean careers: combinations and implications. Journal of Vocational Behavior, v. 69, p. 4-18, 2006.
BRISCOE, J. P.; HALL, D. T.; DEMUTH, R. L. F. Protean and boundaryless careers: an empirical exploration. Journal of Vocational Behavior, v. 69, p. 30-47, 2006.
BROWN, S. D. et al. (Ed.). Career choice and development. São Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.
BROWN, S. D.; LENT, R. W. (Ed.). Career development and counseling: putting theory and research to work. São Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
BUJOLD, C. Constructing career through narrative. Journal of Vocational Behavior, v. 64, p. 470-484, 2004.
CHEN, C. P. Integrating action theory and human agency in career development. Canadian Journal of Counselling, v. 36, n. 2, p. 121-135, 2002.
CHEN, C. P. Strengthening career human agency. Journal of Counseling & Development, v. 84, n. 2, p. 131-138, 2006.
COCHRAN, L.; LAUB, J. Becoming an agent. New York: SUNY, 1994.
COCHRAN, L. Career counseling: a narrative approach. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997.
COHEN, L.; DUBERLEY, J.; MALLON, M. Social constructionism in the study of career. Journal of Vocational Behavior, v. 64, n. 3, p. 407-422, 2004.
COLLIN, A.; PATTON, W. (Ed.). Vocational psychological and organisational perspectives on career. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009.
COLLIN, A.; YOUNG, R. A. The future of career. In: COLLIN, A.; YOUNG, R. A. (Ed.). The future of career. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. p. 276-300.
CROWLEY-HENRY, M.; WEIR, D. The international protean career. Journal of Organizational Change Management, v. 20, n. 2, p. 245-258, 2007.
CROWLEY-HENRY, M. The protean career. International Studies of Management & Organization, v. 37, n. 3, p. 44-64, 2007.
CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, M. Flow: the psychology of optimal experience. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
CURRIE, G.; TEMPES, S.; STARKEY, K. New careers for old? International Journal of Human Resource Management, v. 17, n. 4, p. 755-774, 2006.
DANY, F. Free agents and organizations. International Journal of Human Resource Management, v. 14, n. 5, p. 821-838, 2003.
DEFILLIPPI, R. J.; ARTHUR, M. B. The boundaryless career: a competency-based perspective. Journal of Organizational Behavior, v. 15, n. 4, p. 307-324, 1994.
DUBERLEY, J.; MALLON, M.; COHEN, L. Exploring career transitions: accounting for structure and agency. Personnel Review, v. 35, n. 3, p. 281-296, 2006.
GOLD, M.; FRASER, J. Managing self-management: successful transitions to portfolio careers. Work, Employment & Society, v. 16, p. 579-597, 2002.
GREENHAUS, J. H. An investigation of the role of career salience in vocational behavior. Journal of Vocational Behavior, v. 1, p. 209-216, 1971.
GUNZ, H. The two solitudes: the vocational psychological/organisational gap, as seen from the organisational perspective. In: COLLIN, A.; PATTON, W. (Ed.). Vocational psychological and organizational perspectives on career. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009. p. 19-28.
GUNZ, H. P.; PEIPERL, M. A. Handbook of career studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007.
HALL, D. T. Career in organizations. Glenview: Scott Foresman, 1976.
HALL, D. T. Careers in and out of organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2002.
HALL, D. T. The protean career: a quarter-century journey. Journal of Vocational Behavior, v. 65, n. 1, p. 1-13, 2004.
HANDY, C. The age of unreason. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
HIRSCH, P. M.; SHANLEY, M. The rhetoric of boundaryless - or, how the newly empowered managerial class bought into its own marginalization. In: ARTHUR, M. B.; ROUSSEAU, D. M. (Ed.). The boundaryless career. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. p. 218-233.
HOLLAND, J. L. Making vocational choices: a theory of vocational personalities and work environments. Odessa: Psychological Assessment Resources, 1997.
HUGHES, E. C. Institutional office and the person. American Journal of Sociology, v. 43, p. 404-413, 1937.
INKSON, K.; BARUCH, Y. Organizational careers. In: CLEGG, S. R.; COOPER, C. L. (Ed.). The Sage handbook of organizational behavior. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009. p. 209-223.
INKSON, K. Understanding careers. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2007.
JACKSON, C. Managing and developing a boundaryless career. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, v. 5, n. 4, p. 617-628, 1996.
LIPS-WIERSMA, M. S.; MCMORLAND, J. Finding meaning and purpose in boundaryless careers. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, v. 46, n. 2, p. 147-167, 2006.
MARSHALL, J. Re-visioning career concepts: a feminist invitation. In: ARTHUR, M. B.; HALL, D. T.; LAWRENCE, B. S. (Ed.). Handbook of career theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. p. 275-291.
MCDONALD, P.; BROWN, K.; BRADLEY, L. Have traditional career paths given way to protean ones? Career Development International, v. 10, n. 2, p. 109-129, 2005.
MCMAHON, M. L.; PATTON, W. A. Career counselling: constructivist approaches. London: Routledge, 2006.
NEVILL, D. D.; SCHLECKER, D. I. The relation of self-efficacy and assertiveness to willingness to engage in traditional/nontraditional career activities. Psychology of Women Quarterly, v. 12, n. 1, p. 91-98, 1988.
OSIPOW, S. H.; FITZGERALD, L. Theories of career development. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1996.
PATTON, W.; MCMAHON, M. Career development and systems theory: a new relationship. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2006.
PEIPERL, M.; ARTHUR, M.; ANAND, N. Career creativity: explorations in the remaking of work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
POEHNELL, G.; AMUNDSON, N. CareerCraft. In: PEIPERL, M. B.; ARTHUR, M.; ANAND, N. (Ed.). Career creativity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. p. 105-122.
PRINGLE, J. K.; MALLON, M. Challenges for the boundaryless career odyssey. International Journal of Human Resource Management, v. 14, n. 5, p. 839-853, 2003.
ROUSSEAU, D. M. Psychological contract in organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1995.
SARGENT, L. D.; DOMBERGER, S. R. Exploring the development of a protean career orientation. Career Development International, v. 12, n. 6, p. 545-564, 2007.
SAVICKAS, M. Career construction theory. In: GREENHAUS, J.; CALLANAN, G. (Ed.). Encyclopaedia of career development. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006. p. 84-88.
SAVICKAS, M. Revitalising vocational psychology and energising the study of career: a way forward. In: COLLIN, A.; PATTON, W. (Ed.). Vocational psychological and organizational perspectives on career. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009. p. 197-208.
SAVICKAS, M. L. The theory and practice of career construction. In: BROWN, S. D.; LENT, R. W. (Ed.). Career development and counseling: putting theory and research to work. São Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005. p. 42-70.
SAVICKAS, M. L.; LENT, R. W. Convergence in career development theories: implications for science and practice. New York: Consulting Psychologists, 1994.
SAVICKAS, M. L. A developmental perspective on vocational behavior: career patterns, salience, and themes. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, v. 1, p. 49-57, 2001.
SAVICKAS, M. L. Career adaptability: an integrative construct for life-span, life-space theory. The Career Development Quarterly, v. 45, n. 3, p. 247-259, 1997.
SCHAFF, K. Philosophy and the problems of work. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
SCHEIN, E. Career dynamics: matching individual and organizational needs. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1978.
SCHEIN, E. Career anchors. São Francisco: University Associates, 1993.
SENNETT, R. The craftsman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
STEPHENS, G. K. Crossing internal career boundaries. Journal of Management, v. 20, n. 2, p. 479-501, 1994.
STICKLAND, R. Career self-management. International Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, v. 5, n. 4, p. 583-596, 1996.
STUMPF, S. A.; LOCKHART, M. C. Career exploration: work-role salience, work preferences, beliefs, and behaviour. Journal of Vocational Behaviour, v. 30, p. 258-269, 1987.
SULLIVAN, S. E.; ARTHUR, M. B. The evolution of the boundaryless career concept. Journal of Vocational Behavior, v. 69, n. 1, p. 19-29, 2006.
SUPER, D. E. A life-span, life-space approach to career development. In: BROWN, D.; BROOKS, L. (Ed.). Career choice and development: applying contemporary theories to practice. São Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990. p. 197-261.
SUPER, D. E. The structure of work values in relation to status, achievement, interests, and adjustment. Journal of Applied Psychology, v. 46, n. 4, p. 231-239, 1962.
SUPER, D. E. The psychology of careers. Nova York: Harper & Row, 1957.
SUPER, D. E.; SVERKO, B. (Ed.). Life roles, values, and careers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.
SUPER, D. E.; THOMPSON, A. S.; LINDEMAN, R. H. Adult Career Concerns Inventory: a manual for research and exploratory use in counseling. Palo Alto: Consulting Psychologists Press, 1988.
TAMS, S.; ARTHUR, M. B. Boundaryless career. In: GREENHAUS, J.; CALLANAN, G. (Ed.). Encyclopaedia of career development. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006. p. 44-49.
TEMPLER, A. J.; CAWSEY, T. F. Rethinking career development in an era of portfolio careers. Career Development International, v. 2, n. 2, p. 70-76, 1999.
VAN MAANEN, J. Organizational careers: some new perspectives. London: Wiley, 1977.
WALTON, S.; MALLON, M. Redefining the boundaries? Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, v. 41, n. 1, p. 75-95, 2004.
WEICK, K. E. Enactment and the boundaryless career: organizing as we work. In: ARTHUR, M. B.; ROUSSEAU, D. M. (Ed.). The boundaryless career: a new employment principle for a new organizational era. Nova York: Oxford University Press, 1996. p. 40-57.
WEISS, R.; KAHN, R. L. Definitions of work and occupation. Social Problems, v. 8, p. 142-151, 1960-1961.
WRZESNIEWSKI, A.; DUTTON, J. E. Crafting a job: revisioning employees as active crafters of their work. Academy of Management Review, v. 26, n. 2, p. 179-201, 2001.
YAMASHITA, M.; UENOYAMA, T. Boundaryless career and adaptative HR practices in Japan's hotel industry. Career Development International, v. 11, n. 3, p. 230-242, 2006.
YOUNG, R. A.; BORGEN, W. Methodological approaches to the study of career. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers, 1990.
YOUNG, R. A.; COLLIN, A. Introduction: constructivism and social constructionism in the career field. Journal of Vocational Behavior, v. 64, p. 373-388, 2004.
YOUNG, R.; COLLIN, A. (Ed.). Interpreting career: hermeneutical studies of lives in context. Nova York: Praeger, 1992.