The development of contract research organisations in Sweden: Health care, privatisation and neo-liberalism

Abstract

This paper examines changes in local working conditions instigated by the development of contract research organisations in pharmaceutical development. These developments are seen as occurring in the context of Sweden's 'circumscribed neoliberalization'. It is shown how staff remain ambivalent about the shifts of location and identity that these developments imply. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.