‘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...

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...

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...