ORGANIZATIONAL AND POPULATION-LEVEL LEARNING AS ENGINES FOR CAREER TRANSITIONS

Building inductively on twenty-four in depth interviews, the authors a rgue that boundaryless organizations will alter both career theories a nd actual career mobility patterns. The paper illustrates how both org anizational and population level learning can affect individual job tr ansitions within and cross organizations. The three evolutionary learn ing steps of variation, selection and retention all remain important, but the impact of variation processes may increase. Boundaryless organ izations will thus generate career patterns reflecting an underlying l ogic of organizational learning rather than producing simple atomistic exchange between unfettered actors.