Venture work : employees in thinly capitalized firms /
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| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives; 1: New Forms of Work in the Post-corporate Economy: Venture Labor, Contract Work, and Freelancing; Vignette: Governing Innovation-led Growth; Introduction; Defining the Corporation: The Corporation as a Financial Capital-raising Vehicle; Institutional Ownership and the Question of Short-termism; Economic Compensation and the Question of Economic Inequality; Industry Structure; Finance Industry Expansion; Declining Unionism; Economic Inequality as a Corporate Governance Issue
- The Socio-economic Consequences of the Shareholder Primacy OrientationEconomic Concentration; Debt, Debt-financed Welfare, and the Prospect of Economic Growth; Everyday Work in Market Society: The New Conditions of Work; Career and Career Planning in External Labor Markets; Economic, Social, and Managerial Consequences; Professional Work: Contract Work, Freelance Work, and Venture Labor; Occupational Work and "Early Career" Work: Agency Work, Internships, and Free Labor; Professional Work and Free Labor: Differences and Similarities; Summary and Conclusion; References
- 2: Reason and Rationality in Organization Studies: Employee MotivationIntroduction; Reason and the Benefits of Non-legal Enforcement of Rules; Defining and Discriminating Reason and Rationality; Relational Trust and Delegatory Relationships; Social Norms as Vehicles for Trust-based Relationships; Reason in Action: Empirical Studies of Trust and Delegatory Relationships; The Virtues and Vices of Reason; On Rationality as a Calculative Practice; Defining Rationality; The Value of the Rationality Concept: Algorithm Governance and the Re-visioning of Rationality
- Reason and Rationality: A RejoinderReason and Rationality in Venture Labor; Job Crafting and Deeply Meaningful Work; Deeply Meaningful Work and Callings; Summary and Conclusion; References; Part II: Empirical Data; 3: Passion: The Motivation Behind Venture Work; Vignette: On the Passions and Interests in Economic Pursuits; Introduction; Venture Work and the Role of Compensation and Motivational Factors; The Political Economy of Life Science: On the Valuation of Business Ventures; Are Venture Capital Investors Successful in Promoting Their Portfolio Companies?
- Inside the "Economic Engine": On Firm-level Motivation in University SpinoffsVenture Work in Life Science Startups; Passionate Work with Colleagues in Life Science Startups; Pursuing Higher Goals in Life Science Ventures; Working in a Team; Small Employers Are Preferable to Big Companies; Summary and Conclusion; References; 4: Interest: The Goal of Reducing Uncertainty; Introduction; Working in Thinly Capitalized Firms: Economic Security and Venture Work; Constructing the Concept of Economic Security; The Labor Market and the Idea of Employability