Precarious Professional Work Entrepreneurialism, Risk and Economic Compensation in the Knowledge Economy /

• Main Author: Styhre, Alexander (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Knowledge management.; Organization.; Planning.; Personnel management.; Macroeconomics.; Business and Management.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Knowledge Management.; Human Resource Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

This book examines the new conditions under which professional work, often referred to as “knowledge-intensive work,” is organised and how professional groups who have traditionally been granted jurisdictional discretion now have their work routines renegotiated. In the new economic regime of what h...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The New World of Precarious Professional Work
• 2. Investor Capitalism and the Decline of the Public Corporation and the Middle Class
• 3. The New Forms of Professional Work: Entrepreneurialism and Precarious Professional Work
• 4. Conducting and Managing Precarious Professional Work: Hard and Soft Human Resource Management Practices
• 5. The Future of Professionalism: How to Preserve and Justify Jurisdictional Discretion in Investor Capitalism.