摘要：The papers that comprise this Special Issue represent a variety of attempts at exploringthe potential contributions to careers scholarship that might emerge from applying con-cepts and models from the so-called "new sciences," a term widely used to denote alarge area of enquiry in the physical and complexity sciences. This article introduces thespecial 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, webriefly introduce each of the papers in the Special Issue
