MALISZEWSKI, MARCO FRANK The Temporal and Spatial Boundaries of Work and Nonwork of Business Travellers: A Study of a Multinational Firm in the Consulting Industry This qualitative study explores the work-nonwork challenges and spatio-temporal role boundaries of hypermobile management consultants working at a Big Four professional firm. It makes three central contributions. First, frequent business travel emerged as a “necessary evil” with adverse consequences at the individual and organisational level. Second, consultants’ spatio-temporal role boundaries were found to be unusually elusive. This contribution offers intellectual opportunities for theorising work and nonwork in novel ways; that is adopting a more fluid perspective on the role content of time and space. Finally, this study offers actionable recommendations which can help management consultancies to achieve a competitive advantage through the strategic management of labour hypermobility. Boundary management;Role boundaries;Time;Space;Professional firms;Management consulting;HRM;Business travel;International Business;Human Resources Management;Sociology 2017-07-19
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10.4225/03/596ea59e3d49f