title: Boundaryless career and career success: the impact of emotional and social competencies.
abstract: Even though, over the last two decades, the boundaryless career concept has stimulated a wide theoretical debate, scholars have recently claimed that research on the competencies that are necessary for managing a cross-boundary career is still incomplete. Similarly, the literature on emotional and social competencies has demonstrated how they predict work performance across industries and jobs but has neglected their influence in explaining the individual's mobility across boundaries and their impact on career success. This study aims to fill these gaps by examining the effects of emotional and social competencies on boundaryless career and on objective career success. By analyzing a sample of 142 managers over a period of 8 years, we found evidence that emotional competencies positively influence the propensity of an individual to undertake physical career mobility and that career advancements are related to the possession of social competencies and depend on the adoption of boundaryless career paths. This study also provides a contribution in terms of the evaluation of the emotional and social competencies demonstrated by an individual and of the operationalization of the measurement of boundaryless career paths, considering three facets of the physical mobility construct (organizational, industrial, and geographical boundaries).
authors.affiliation: Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Venice, Italy.
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gerli
authors.affiliation: Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Venice, Italy.
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bonesso
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice Venice, Italy.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pizzi
keywords: boundaryless career; career management; career mobility; career success; emotional and social competencies