Careers in a Complex World: The Search for New Perspectives from the “New Science”

Abstract

The papers that comprise this Special Issue represent a variety of attempts at exploring the potential contributions to careers scholarship that might emerge from applying concepts and models from the so-called “new sciences,” a term widely used to denote a large area of enquiry in the physical and complexity sciences. This article introduces the special issue. It explains its origins, and defines the territory that it covers, specifically, the kinds of career on which the articles focus, the meaning of the term “new science,” and the kind of connections that we believe can be made between the two. Finally, we briefly introduce each of the papers in the Special Issue.