Modelling the Production and Consequences of Career Success in the Present Era from the Perspectives of Sustainable Careers, Social Capital and Self-Expatriation

The outputs submitted, nine in number (eight full length refereed journal articles and one chapter in Edited Volume) fall within the disciplines of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management. As a whole entity, this work contributes to the field of careers with special emphasis on career success by means of providing insights into the processes involved in the production of outcomes that relate to career success and are of interest to both career actors and employers. Specifically, these works made distinct contributions to career success literature in the past ten years, under the three following themes: first, sustainable careers, by means of advancing knowledge on the antecedents and mechanisms involved in the production of key proximal career success indicators, such as employability and job performance, and more distal success indicators, such as objective career success; second, careers of self-initiated expatriates, by means of developing comprehensive context-embedded models to map the decision to self-expatriate or to consider another self-expatriation endeavour as function of actual and anticipated career success; third, the social capital approach to career success, by means of identifying personality antecedents of social capital accumulation and shedding light in the shape (linear vs. non-linear) of association between personality antecedents and social capital (considered in terms of mentoring and network ties). Hypotheses and models have been developed using established theoretical frameworks and careful contemplation, but there are also outputs where I (or with co-authors) constructed novel theoretical argumentation. Viewed independently, each of the nine works contributes towards an improved understanding of a narrow issue within the broader careers literature. Considered together, the works are complementary and provide a comprehensive idea of the factors and processes involved in the production of proximal and distal career success in the present era.