About this series

The Career series will cover both core and emerging topics and debates within the careers field. On the one hand, there are a number of issues that constitute classics within career studies and revolve around the individuals who have a career, the social and geographical space within which their careers unfold, and the temporal aspects linked with careers. Examples include influencing factors of individual career success, organizational career management, and career timetables. 

On the other hand, there are several topics that either newly emerged or came to the forefront over the past two decades and have profound effects for careers such as digitalization, demographic changes, global migration, and various forms of crises ranging from climate via global pandemics to substantial changes in the global political architecture. For career effects, examples include handling multiple identities in careers in the virtual space, forced migration and its effects on individual career capitals, and effects of continuously produced individual health and movement data on career progress and satisfaction.  

About the Editors

Mila Lazarova is the William Saywell Professor of International Business and the Director of the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Canada. She holds a part-time Full Professor position at the Department of Management at WU Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include expatriate management and global mobility, with a focus on repatriation and the career impact of international assignments; work/life balance issues related to assignments; global careers and the role of organizational career development and mobility practices in organizations; the changing role of the HR department; and comparative human resource management. She has published numerous papers in scholarly journals and edited volumes. She is the author of Essentials of International Human Resource Management: Managing People Globally, and together with Hugh Gunz and Wolfgang Mayrhofer, the editor of 2020 Routledge Companion to Career Studies She sits on four editorial boards and curtly serves as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Work Business. 

Wolfgang Mayrhofer is a Full Professor and heads the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organisational Behaviour, WU Vienna, Austria. He previously had full-time positions at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He conducts research in comparative international human resource management and work careers, spirituality, management and religion, and systems theory and management and has received national and international awards for outstanding research and service to the academic community. He authored, co-authored and co-edited 36 books as well as more than 160 book chapters and 100 peer reviewed articles. Wolfgang Mayrhofer is a member of editorial or advisory boards of several international journals and research centres. His assignments at all levels of teaching and his role as visiting scholar have led him to many universities around the globe. He regularly consults to both private and public sector organisations and conducts trainings in HRM, ladership, teams, and self-development, partially by outdoor training/sailing (www.championSHIPs.at).

Founding Editor

Hugh Gunz

The late Hugh Gunz was Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He published on the careers of managers and professionals; the management of professionals; professional ethics; and management education.  He authored or co-authored several monographs on career scholarship – most recently with Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Rethinking Career Studies: Facilitating Conversation across Boundaries with the Social Chronology Framework (Cambridge 2017) – and co-edited the Handbook of Career Studies (2007) and The Routledge Companion to Career Studies (2020).  He served on the editorial boards of a number of journals, was a former chair of the Careers Division of the Academy of Management, and a co-convenor of a former EGOS Standing Working Group on careers. 

Contact details

Mila Lazarova: mbl@sfu.ca
Wolfgang Mayrhofer: wolfgang.mayrhofer@wu.ac.at 

Areas of interest

Career counselling
Career management systems
Career patterns 
Careers and diversity
Careers and time
Careers in specific industrial contexts, for example the art worlds
Contextual influences on careers
Digitalization and careers
Exploring career as an interdisciplinary phenomenon
International careers
Intersectional effects (e.g., gender, social class, ethnicity, …)
Key theoretical debates within the careers field
Mentorship and developmental networks
Methodological issues in the study of careers
New forms of work (platform, gig etc.) and careers
Organizational career management
Success in careers
Sustainable careers
Teaching about careers
The dark side of careers
The future of careers
Work-home issues in the study of careers