Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2022

Keywords

bibliographic analysis, bibliometric analysis, career, career proactivity, literature review, proactive behavior, proactivity, visualization

DOI

10.1111/apps.12442

Abstract

Individuals often need to be proactive in order to successfully navigate their career development journeys.

To what extent one is vocationally proactive has critical

implications for his or her attitudes, behaviors, and

other outcomes in career and work-related settings.

However, research in career proactivity has been accumulating from divergent perspectives, resulting in a

substantially fragmented literature that has not been

comprehensively, objectively synthesized to guide the

field to move forward. To advance the domain of career

proactivity, this paper synthesizes theoretical and

empirical literatures using two major bibliometric analyses. We first analyze the intellectual basis of the

career proactivity literature by performing document

citation analysis. We then review the developmental

trends of main conceptual themes in career proactivity

literature using a temporal co-word analysis. Informed

by these bibliometric findings, we propose a roadmap

for future research highlighting the need to clear up

concepts, account for context, develop new meso-level

theories, and bridge the domains of organizational

behavior and vocational development.

Source Publication

Applied Psychology

Volume Number

72

First Page

144

Last Page

184

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