Venture Work Employees in Thinly Capitalized Firms
‘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, Sty
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Venture Work Employees in Thinly Capitalized Firms
Venture Work
Alexander Styhre
Venture Work Employees in Thinly Capitalized Firms
Alexander Styhre School of Business, Economics and Law University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden
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Preface
This volume is the outcome of a long-standing professional engagement I have maintained since the late 1990s, to study life science companies and their activities and relations. More recently, I have published at least two relevant books for this domain of research, Financing Life Science Innovation (2015, Palgrave Macmillan) and the more theoretically oriented volume Precarious Professional Work (2017, Palgrave Macmillan). This volume more explicitly addresses the question of why and on what basis rational individuals embark on careers in small-scale life science start-ups. This question is motivated by the empirically substantiated fact that many life science ventures are bound to default, or eventually become moribund as they end up in a state wherein they are starved of venture capital. Furthermore, also in the early stages, when finance capital is less pronounced than in the development phases, wherein for example, clinical trials and regulatory affair concerns put the venture under pressure to attract larger stocks of venture capital, this line of work is not fully compensated for the increased market risks the employee is exposed to in comparison to a position with
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