Inter-brand career mobility: a study of general manager perceptions and implications for talent management
| dc.contributor.author | Jooss, Stefan | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Carbery, Ronan | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Kuosa, Miia | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-14T15:21:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-14T15:21:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-04-03 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Purpose: This study aims to examine how career mobility in the hotel industry shapes individuals’ careers toward general manager roles. Design/methodology/approach: In this exploratory qualitative research, the authors draw on 45 interviews with general managers from 16 countries. Using abductive reasoning and thematic analysis, the authors adopt a career mobility lens. Findings: Evolving openness toward career mobility and structural transformation in the industry are catalysts for inter-brand mobility. The authors identify constraints on and enablers of inter-brand mobility. Specifically, the study findings highlight low perceived permeability in upward mobility from four-star to five-star hotels. Practical implications: Organizations should adopt a talent management culture, working toward reducing constraints on inter-brand mobility. This entails changing long-held, archaic perceptions and investing in employees’ transferable skills. Originality/value: The authors conceptualize and highlight a novel form of career mobility – inter-brand mobility – which differs from traditional organizational and geographical forms of mobility. Further, the authors add to the discourse on the boundaries of career mobility, theorizing the complexities of inter-brand mobility in the hospitality context. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jooss, S., Carbery, R. and Kuosa, M. (2025) 'Inter-brand career mobility: a study of general manager perceptions and implications for talent management', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 37(13), pp.39-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-08-2024-1240 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1108/ijchm-08-2024-1240 | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1757-1049 | en |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 63 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0959-6119 | en |
| dc.identifier.issued | 13 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 39 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/17494 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 37 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Emerald Publishing Ltd. | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management | en |
| dc.rights | © 2025, Stefan Jooss, Ronan Carbery and Miia Kuosa. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Employment | en |
| dc.subject | Careers | en |
| dc.subject | Workforce | en |
| dc.subject | Talent management | en |
| dc.subject | Career mobility | en |
| dc.subject | Labor markets | en |
| dc.subject | ~Management and Marketing - Journal Articles~ | en |
| dc.title | Inter-brand career mobility: a study of general manager perceptions and implications for talent management | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
| dc.type | journal-article | en |
| oaire.citation.issue | 13 | en |
| oaire.citation.volume | 37 | en |
