Organizations and the Bioeconomy - The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

This book presents an integrated yet complex view of how the life sciences are becoming increasingly subject to economic interests and venturing. Not only are life science advances confined to laboratories-only slowly and eventually pouring into the health care practices, policies, and recommendations-but they are also taking the form of goods and services in their own right.

List of contents

Selected Contents: 1. The Concept of the Bioeconomy 2. Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and the Calculative Worldview: The Economics of Life 3. New Drug Development, Biotechnology and the Enactment of Life 4. The Tissue Economy 5. Living In and Managing the Bioeconomy

About the author

Alexander Styhre is Professor and Chair of Organization Theory and Management in the Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics, and Law at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has published extensively in the field of organization theory and his most recent books are Visual Culture in Organizations (Routledge, 2010) and Perception and Organization (2009).

Summary

This book presents an integrated yet complex view of how the life sciences are becoming increasingly subject to economic interests and venturing. Not only are life science advances confined to laboratories—only slowly and eventually pouring into the health care practices, policies, and recommendations—but they are also taking the form of goods and services in their own right.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Styhre, Alexander (Chalmers University of Technolo Styhre, Styhre Alexander
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138107342
• ISBN: 978-1-138-10734-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Business & Economics / General, MEDICAL / Ethics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Pharmacology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Sales & marketing, Sociology: work & labour, Manufacturing industries, Sales and marketing, Health systems & services, Sociology: work and labour, Public ownership / nationalization, Health systems and services, Pharmaceutical industries