Internet odysseys: linking web roles to career and community investments |
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| Authors: | Robert DeFillippi Michael Arthur Polly Parker |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Management, Suffolk University, 8 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108, USA (tel: +617 573 8243;2. fax: +617 994 4260;3. e-mail: rdefilli@suffolk.edu).;4. School of Management, Suffolk University, 8 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108, USA (tel: +617 573 8357;5. e-mail: marthur@suffolk.edu).;6. Department of Management and Employment Relations, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand (tel: +64 9 373 7599 ext 7197;7. fax: +64 9 373 7477;8. e-mail: p.parker@auckland.ac.nz). |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines a new kind of career odyssey, namely that into the relatively uncharted territory of the world wide web. It extends recent ideas about personal and communal career investments by exploring people's web-enabled career behaviour, based on Tapscott et al.'s (2000) typology of web roles. MBA students completed a preliminary career exploration instrument and then met in different focus groups according to the web role with which each student most identified. The reported career investments varied depending on the web role involved. An attempt was made to corroborate these findings through practitioner interviews, but there were problems in reconciling the two kinds of data. The implications of these findings are discussed, and a series of observations is offered concerning the further study of the increasingly virtual journeys anticipated for careers of the future. |
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| Keywords: | Career capital web capital career communities web roles career investments |
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