Alexander Styhre: 13 books
Knowledge Sharing in Professions
Roles and Identity in Expert Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
No professional is an island. Despite their capacity to monopolize and erect entry barriers in terms of either formal credentials or membership of certain organizations, professionalism is inextricably bound up with collective accomplishments on a day-to-day basis and the capacity to share all the...
Organizations and the Bioeconomy
The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The advancement of the life sciences and the technosciences has enhanced the longevity of citizens in the Western world, and half of the generation born in the first decade of the new millennium is now expected to live to the age of one hundred years. In a society with such longevity and affluence,...
Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy
A Sociomaterial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy, Alexander Styhre and Rebecka Arman illuminate issues that have given rise to terms such as 'the bioeconomy' and 'the baby business'. The life sciences play an increasing role in providing services and commodities consumed...
The Financialization of the Firm
Managerial and Social Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
The term ‘financialization’ denotes the general tendency in the advanced Western economies to allow a substantial proportion of taxable profits to accumulate in the finance industry. Alexander Styhre discusses the financialization of the firm in the period after 1980 and stresses how key managerial...
The Making of Shareholder Welfare Society
A Study in Corporate Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The Making of Shareholder Welfare Society traces and accounts for the debates and discussions between law and economics scholars and mainstream legal scholars, management theorists, and economic sociologists. This is done in detail to demonstrate that the shareholder welfare society was built from...
Corporate Governance, The Firm and Investor Capitalism
Legal-Political and Economic Views
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
The shift from managerial capitalism to investor capitalism, dominated by the finance industry and finance capital accumulation, is jointly caused by a variety of institutional, legal, political, and ideological changes, beginning with the 1970s’ downturn of the global economy. This book traces how...
Management and Neoliberalism
Connecting Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
After the financial collapse of 2008 and the bailing out of banks in the US and the UK, the long-term viability of the neoliberal doctrine has come under new scrutiny. The elimination of regulatory control, the financialization of the economy including the growth of increasingly complex financial...
Precarious Professional Work
Entrepreneurialism, Risk and Economic Compensation in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
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...
Institutionalizing Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Role of Science, Professionalism, and Regulatory Control
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Reproductive medicine has been very successful at developing new therapies in recent years and people having difficulties conceiving have more options available to them than ever before. These developments have led to a new institutional landscape emerging and this innovative volume explores how health...
Leadership Varieties
The Role of Economic Change and the New Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In all periods of time, there is a perceived shortage of qualified, credible, and robust leadership skills. At the same time, what is regarded as skilled leadership is contingent on economic, political, institutional, and cultural conditions specific for a period of time or a local setting. Leadership...
by Alexander Styhre
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Knowledge management presents a new way of understanding organizations and companies, and is especially suited to sophisticated and highly technical firms and operations such as those in the construction industry.
This new book draws on hard data from three separate research programs in Sweden...
Visual Culture in Organizations
Theory and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Vision and visuality are two concepts widely discussed and debated in philosophy and social science literature. Some authors even suggest that the entire Western intellectual tradition is strongly shaped by the paradigm of vision; the inspection and analysis of specimens collected from social reality...
Venture Work
Employees in Thinly Capitalized Firms
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around so-called precarious or venture work, as the proportion of those employed by start-ups and thinly-capitalized firms continues to grow. Filling a gap in literature, the author explores the relationship between venture co-workers and examines how...