An exploratory sequential research on the the dynamics of individual career

The field of Career Management is in critical need of integrative and interdisciplinary research into contemporary career phenomena. This exploratory sequential research responded to this call by exploring and testing novel features of individual career dynamics in the context of an emerging country in Asia. Driven by two new meta-frameworks of career research: the career ecosystem and the systematic theory framework, a mixed-method study was employed to address multiple aspects of the dynamics of individual careers at three levels: individual, institutional, and industrial. The findings from this research will help build a bridge between theories and concepts relating to careers and those used in other disciplines such as proactivity, positivity concepts, Job design theory, and Self-Determination theory.