‘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...

Chapter One: The ethnographer’s dilemma: To understand a world that is not your own while avoiding to misrepresenting it -- Part I: Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter two: Governing innovation led economies: The role of business creation and creativity -- Chapter three: The passionate worker...

Chapter 1: Status as concept and social fact -- Part I: Theoretical perspectives -- Chapter 2: The manipulation of status: Causes and effects -- Chapter 3: Status and cognition: Decision making, policy implementation, and fallacies and biases in status ordered fields -- Part II: Empirical cases...