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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 what has been called “investor capitalism” and under the influence of shareholder primacy governance, professional work is put under pressure to change. The author explores issues of increased financial and economic volatility, the pressure to outsource and offshore professional work and the increased supply of competitors with tertiary education degrees in the labour market. Examining both macroeconomic conditions and policy that inform and shape the domain of professional work, the book emphasises how the nature of professional work has changed since the 1980s and 1990s and argues that it is no longer a “safe haven” for a favoured group of elite workers. Precarious Professional Work underlines how the study of professions must constantly accommodate new economic conditions and managerial practices to better understand how professional work is dependent on and entangled with external social, economic, and political conditions.

Business. --- Leadership. --- Knowledge management. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Personnel management. --- Macroeconomics. --- Business and Management. --- Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics. --- Knowledge Management. --- Human Resource Management. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Precarious employment. --- Professional employees. --- Professionals --- Employees --- Employment, Precarious --- Labor --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Corporations --- Employment management --- Human resource management --- Human resources management --- Manpower utilization --- Personnel administration --- Management --- Public administration --- Employment practices liability insurance --- Supervision of employees --- Management of knowledge assets --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Economics --- Organisation --- Personnel management --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Organization

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This book presents a study of so-called indie video game developers that are widely regarded as the creative and innovative fringe of the video game industry. The video game industry is an exemplary entrepreneurial high growth industry that combines digital media, cinematographic representations and interactive gaming technologies, and uses global digital distribution channels to reach local gaming communities. The study examines a number of issues, concerns, challenges, and opportunities that indie developers are handling as part of their development work. The love of gaming and video games more specifically is the shared and unifying force of both so-called Triple-A developers and the indie developer community. Still, issues such as how to raise financial capital or otherwise fund the development work, or how to optimize the return on investment when video games are released on digital platforms are issues that indie developers need to cope with. The study is theoretically framed as a case of an innovation-led sector of the economy, yet being anchored in the Swedish welfare state model, wherein e.g., free tertiary education and social insurances and health case at low cost are provided and supportive of enterprising. This book will be valuable reading for academics working in the fields of knowledge management, innovation, and the creative economy. . .

Video games industry. --- Video game industry --- Electronic games industry --- Management. --- Industrial management. --- New business enterprises. --- Knowledge management. --- Management information systems. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Start-Ups/Venture Capital. --- Knowledge Management. --- Software Management. --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Management --- Management of knowledge assets --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Business starts --- Development stage enterprises --- How to start a business --- New companies --- Start-up business enterprises --- Start-up companies --- Start-ups (Business enterprises) --- Starting a business --- Startups (Business enterprises) --- Business enterprises --- Business incubators --- Business administration --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Communication systems

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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 what has been called “investor capitalism” and under the influence of shareholder primacy governance, professional work is put under pressure to change. The author explores issues of increased financial and economic volatility, the pressure to outsource and offshore professional work and the increased supply of competitors with tertiary education degrees in the labour market. Examining both macroeconomic conditions and policy that inform and shape the domain of professional work, the book emphasises how the nature of professional work has changed since the 1980s and 1990s and argues that it is no longer a “safe haven” for a favoured group of elite workers. Precarious Professional Work underlines how the study of professions must constantly accommodate new economic conditions and managerial practices to better understand how professional work is dependent on and entangled with external social, economic, and political conditions.

Theory of knowledge --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Macroeconomics --- Business policy --- Personnel management --- kennismanagement --- B2B (business-to-business) --- coaching --- leidinggeven --- HRM (human resource management) --- macro-economie --- kapitalisme --- strategisch beleid --- ondernemen

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Sociology of environment --- Land. Real estate --- Private houses