Venture Work Employees in Thinly Capitalized Firms /

• Main Author: Styhre, Alexander (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: New business enterprises.; Industries.; Employee health promotion.; Corporations-Finance.; Start-Ups/Venture Capital.; Employee Health and Wellbeing.; Corporate Finance.

'What motivates contemporary workers who can no longer rely on a stable employment in corporations? Alexander Styhre offers unique insights into this question in his book. Having taken a close look at venture work, contract work and freelancing, Styhre throws a new light on the changing pattern...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Theoretical Perspectives
• 1. New Forms of Work in the Post-corporate Economy: Venture Labor, Contract Work and Freelancing
• 2. Reason and Rationality in Organization Studies: Employee Motivation
• Part II. Empirical Data
• 3. Passion: The Motivations behind Venture Work
• 4. Interest: The Goal of Reducing Uncertainty
• 5. Salaried Work in a Financial Economy: Market Risk.