Jelena Zikic
Biographic Data
| ID | 4084342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jelena Zikic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jelena |
| FAMILY NAME | Zikic |
| SIGNATURE | ZIKIC J |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3026-2533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Digital Nomads in Conversation
We examine digital nomadism through the lens of the Intelligent Careers framework and compare this emerging career form with more traditional migrant careers. We show how digital nomads navigate their career paths by leveraging online platforms for casual storytelling and knowledge sharing. Our analysis uses probabilistic topic modeling to analyze 66,601 Reddit posts from the DigitalNomad subreddit to uncover insights into digital nomads’ career …
The Role of Relational Communication Climate in Skilled Migrant Integration
Purpose This paper aims to address the integration challenges faced by skilled migrants (SMs) in local organizations, specifically focusing on the relational and communication processes that impact workplace inclusion. The aim is to propose a new framework – relational communication climate – that facilitates better integration and coordination between SMs and local employees. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper draws on diversity a…
Linking institutional context to the community and career embeddedness of skilled migrants
Migration is one of the most pressing global issues of our time. However, relatively little is known about the factors and mechanisms that govern the post-migration experiences of skilled migrants. We adopt an acculturation- and social identity-based approach to examine how differences between institutional characteristics in the destination and origin country, as well as migrants’ experiences with formal and informal institutions shape their ide…
Here, there, & everywhere
Going against the grain
Skilled migrants constitute a significant and growing population in our knowledge economy, as they self‐initiate international careers in search of permanent resettlement. Yet, once in the new country, many skilled migrants face dire disappointments in that the jobs offered to them often fall short of their training and aspirations. The current quantitative study combines existing insights from qualitative migration research on the barriers to qu…
Can I come as I am? Refugees' vocational identity threats, coping, and growth
Finding Balance Amid Boundarylessness
In recent years, entrepreneurship has grown as an attractive career alternative, promoting much scholarly attention. Still, little is known about the work-life interface of entrepreneurs, in particular whether entrepreneurship enhances work-life balance or exacerbates conflict between domains. We base this study on boundary theory to explore how subjective perceptions of balance and boundary management might illuminate this contradiction. Indeed,…
What happens when you can’t be who you are
This article examines the impact of large scale, ‘macro’ role transitions on professional identity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with two different groups of immigrant professionals, it theorizes how organizational outsiders with established professional identities respond to the institutional requirements and specifically to professional pre-entry scripts in their new host country. The study demonstrates how identity work evolves among each gr…
The neglected role of cultural intelligence in recent immigrant newcomers’ socialization
The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of cultural intelligence (CQ) in contributing to the socialization of recent immigrant newcomers (RINs). Drawing on relevant literatures, a conceptual model is developed, highlighting the role of RINs’ CQ in helping them choose the appropriate adjustment strategies that in turn allow them to better perform their job and to socially integrate into their workplace. The article also examines the…
Reinventing retirement
Retirement involves a set of institutional arrangements combined with socio-cultural meanings to sustain a distinct retirement phase in life course and career pathways. In this Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Reinventing Retirement: New Pathways, New Arrangements, New Meanings,’ we outline the historical development of retirement. We identify the dramatic broad-based changes that recently have shaken this established construct to its core. We…
Entrepreneurial experiences of women in Canadian high technology
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how women entrepreneurs experience entrepreneurship in the Canadian technology sector and the types of obstacles posed by the field's male‐dominated character. Design/methodology/approach The authors' research purpose called for an inductive approach. Interviews with a sample of women technology entrepreneurs allowed for in‐depth exploration of their subjective experiences and the contexts in which …
Coping with economic stress
This special issue presents five papers, four empirical and one conceptual, on how people deal with different forms and stages of economic stress. Three manuscripts address coping with job insecurity in one's regular job or in the context of self‐employment. These papers focus on the multidimensional nature and the development of insecurity over time, personal and social resources, along with organizational interventions that are helpful in minim…
Crossing national boundaries
This qualitative study examines objective–subjective career interdependencies within a sample of 45 qualified immigrants (QIs) in Canada, Spain and France. The particular challenges in this type of self‐initiated international careers arise from the power of institutions and local gatekeepers, the lack of recognition for QIs' foreign career capital, and the need for proactivity. Resulting from primary data analysis, we identify six major themes i…
Human Relations special issue call for papers
Gender differences in involuntary job loss and the reemployment experience
Purpose The study seeks to compare the experiences of job loss and reemployment experiences among female and male higher level managers and professionals. Design/methodology/approach The paper compares data collected at two periods in time from ( n =120) females and ( n =184) males who completed two self‐report questionnaires. Findings Relatively few gender differences were observed in the present study. The fact that females and males experience…
Reinventing retirement
Retirement involves a set of institutional arrangements combined with socio-cultural meanings to sustain a distinct retirement phase in life course and career pathways. In this Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Reinventing Retirement: New Pathways, New Arrangements, New Meanings,’ we outline the historical development of retirement. We identify the dramatic broad-based changes that recently have shaken this established construct to its core. We…
Crossing national boundaries
This qualitative study examines objective–subjective career interdependencies within a sample of 45 qualified immigrants (QIs) in Canada, Spain and France. The particular challenges in this type of self‐initiated international careers arise from the power of institutions and local gatekeepers, the lack of recognition for QIs' foreign career capital, and the need for proactivity. Resulting from primary data analysis, we identify six major themes i…
What happens when you can’t be who you are
This article examines the impact of large scale, ‘macro’ role transitions on professional identity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with two different groups of immigrant professionals, it theorizes how organizational outsiders with established professional identities respond to the institutional requirements and specifically to professional pre-entry scripts in their new host country. The study demonstrates how identity work evolves among each gr…
The neglected role of cultural intelligence in recent immigrant newcomers’ socialization
The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of cultural intelligence (CQ) in contributing to the socialization of recent immigrant newcomers (RINs). Drawing on relevant literatures, a conceptual model is developed, highlighting the role of RINs’ CQ in helping them choose the appropriate adjustment strategies that in turn allow them to better perform their job and to socially integrate into their workplace. The article also examines the…
Entrepreneurial experiences of women in Canadian high technology
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how women entrepreneurs experience entrepreneurship in the Canadian technology sector and the types of obstacles posed by the field's male‐dominated character. Design/methodology/approach The authors' research purpose called for an inductive approach. Interviews with a sample of women technology entrepreneurs allowed for in‐depth exploration of their subjective experiences and the contexts in which …
Finding Balance Amid Boundarylessness
In recent years, entrepreneurship has grown as an attractive career alternative, promoting much scholarly attention. Still, little is known about the work-life interface of entrepreneurs, in particular whether entrepreneurship enhances work-life balance or exacerbates conflict between domains. We base this study on boundary theory to explore how subjective perceptions of balance and boundary management might illuminate this contradiction. Indeed,…
Going against the grain
Skilled migrants constitute a significant and growing population in our knowledge economy, as they self‐initiate international careers in search of permanent resettlement. Yet, once in the new country, many skilled migrants face dire disappointments in that the jobs offered to them often fall short of their training and aspirations. The current quantitative study combines existing insights from qualitative migration research on the barriers to qu…
Coping with economic stress
This special issue presents five papers, four empirical and one conceptual, on how people deal with different forms and stages of economic stress. Three manuscripts address coping with job insecurity in one's regular job or in the context of self‐employment. These papers focus on the multidimensional nature and the development of insecurity over time, personal and social resources, along with organizational interventions that are helpful in minim…
Gender differences in involuntary job loss and the reemployment experience
Purpose The study seeks to compare the experiences of job loss and reemployment experiences among female and male higher level managers and professionals. Design/methodology/approach The paper compares data collected at two periods in time from ( n =120) females and ( n =184) males who completed two self‐report questionnaires. Findings Relatively few gender differences were observed in the present study. The fact that females and males experience…
Gender differences in involuntary job loss and the reemployment experience
Purpose The study seeks to compare the experiences of job loss and reemployment experiences among female and male higher level managers and professionals. Design/methodology/approach The paper compares data collected at two periods in time from ( n =120) females and ( n =184) males who completed two self‐report questionnaires. Findings Relatively few gender differences were observed in the present study. The fact that females and males experience…
Crossing national boundaries
This qualitative study examines objective–subjective career interdependencies within a sample of 45 qualified immigrants (QIs) in Canada, Spain and France. The particular challenges in this type of self‐initiated international careers arise from the power of institutions and local gatekeepers, the lack of recognition for QIs' foreign career capital, and the need for proactivity. Resulting from primary data analysis, we identify six major themes i…
Human Relations special issue call for papers
Entrepreneurial experiences of women in Canadian high technology
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how women entrepreneurs experience entrepreneurship in the Canadian technology sector and the types of obstacles posed by the field's male‐dominated character. Design/methodology/approach The authors' research purpose called for an inductive approach. Interviews with a sample of women technology entrepreneurs allowed for in‐depth exploration of their subjective experiences and the contexts in which …
Coping with economic stress
This special issue presents five papers, four empirical and one conceptual, on how people deal with different forms and stages of economic stress. Three manuscripts address coping with job insecurity in one's regular job or in the context of self‐employment. These papers focus on the multidimensional nature and the development of insecurity over time, personal and social resources, along with organizational interventions that are helpful in minim…
The neglected role of cultural intelligence in recent immigrant newcomers’ socialization
The purpose of this article is to investigate the role of cultural intelligence (CQ) in contributing to the socialization of recent immigrant newcomers (RINs). Drawing on relevant literatures, a conceptual model is developed, highlighting the role of RINs’ CQ in helping them choose the appropriate adjustment strategies that in turn allow them to better perform their job and to socially integrate into their workplace. The article also examines the…
Reinventing retirement
Retirement involves a set of institutional arrangements combined with socio-cultural meanings to sustain a distinct retirement phase in life course and career pathways. In this Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘Reinventing Retirement: New Pathways, New Arrangements, New Meanings,’ we outline the historical development of retirement. We identify the dramatic broad-based changes that recently have shaken this established construct to its core. We…
What happens when you can’t be who you are
This article examines the impact of large scale, ‘macro’ role transitions on professional identity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with two different groups of immigrant professionals, it theorizes how organizational outsiders with established professional identities respond to the institutional requirements and specifically to professional pre-entry scripts in their new host country. The study demonstrates how identity work evolves among each gr…
Finding Balance Amid Boundarylessness
In recent years, entrepreneurship has grown as an attractive career alternative, promoting much scholarly attention. Still, little is known about the work-life interface of entrepreneurs, in particular whether entrepreneurship enhances work-life balance or exacerbates conflict between domains. We base this study on boundary theory to explore how subjective perceptions of balance and boundary management might illuminate this contradiction. Indeed,…
Can I come as I am? Refugees' vocational identity threats, coping, and growth
Here, there, & everywhere
Going against the grain
Skilled migrants constitute a significant and growing population in our knowledge economy, as they self‐initiate international careers in search of permanent resettlement. Yet, once in the new country, many skilled migrants face dire disappointments in that the jobs offered to them often fall short of their training and aspirations. The current quantitative study combines existing insights from qualitative migration research on the barriers to qu…
Linking institutional context to the community and career embeddedness of skilled migrants
Migration is one of the most pressing global issues of our time. However, relatively little is known about the factors and mechanisms that govern the post-migration experiences of skilled migrants. We adopt an acculturation- and social identity-based approach to examine how differences between institutional characteristics in the destination and origin country, as well as migrants’ experiences with formal and informal institutions shape their ide…
The Role of Relational Communication Climate in Skilled Migrant Integration
Purpose This paper aims to address the integration challenges faced by skilled migrants (SMs) in local organizations, specifically focusing on the relational and communication processes that impact workplace inclusion. The aim is to propose a new framework – relational communication climate – that facilitates better integration and coordination between SMs and local employees. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper draws on diversity a…
Digital Nomads in Conversation
We examine digital nomadism through the lens of the Intelligent Careers framework and compare this emerging career form with more traditional migrant careers. We show how digital nomads navigate their career paths by leveraging online platforms for casual storytelling and knowledge sharing. Our analysis uses probabilistic topic modeling to analyze 66,601 Reddit posts from the DigitalNomad subreddit to uncover insights into digital nomads’ career …
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Higher Education and Employability (4 works)