Career diversity and project performance in the Italian television industry

This study finds an inverted U-shaped relationship between past career diversity accumulated across project-based industries and current project-performance; the study finds further that past career diversity achieved within the same project-based industry negatively moderates the inverted U-shaped relationship between past career diversity accumulated across project-based industries and current project-performance. These findings are consistent with the idea that the two patterns of career achievement - across project-based industries and within the same project-based industry - are not complementary but rather serve as imperfect substitutes.