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Bibliometric Analysis of Gig Economy
Administrative Sciences, 2022 Technological advances such as smartphones, mobile applications, and online platforms have enabled a new form of economy, known as a gig economy, at a large scale, in which there is a free-market system allowing organizations (job providers) to hire ...
Altanshagai Batmunkh +2 more
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Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy [PDF]
Work, Employment and Society, 2019 This article evaluates the job quality of work in the remote gig economy. Such work consists of the remote provision of a wide variety of digital services mediated by online labour platforms. Focusing on workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the article draws on semi-structured interviews in six countries ( N = 107) and a cross-regional ...
Alex J Wood +2 more
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EncyclopediaThis entry presents the history, geography, business, regulations, and the roles of gig workers, platform/algorithms, and employers, focusing primarily on the USA and the EU.
Răzvan Hoinaru
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Virtual teams in a gig economy. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 While the gig economy provides flexible jobs for millions of workers globally, a lack of organization identity and coworker bonds contributes to their low engagement and high attrition rates. To test the impact of virtual teams on worker productivity and retention, we conduct a field experiment with 27,790 drivers on a ride-sharing platform.
Ye T +5 more
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Riders on the Storm: Workplace Solidarity among Gig Economy Couriers in Italy and the UK [PDF]
Work, Employment and Society, 2020 In light of the individualisation, dispersal and pervasive monitoring that characterise work in the ‘gig economy’, the development of solidarity among gig workers could be expected to be unlikely.
Arianna Tassinari, Vincenzo Maccarrone
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Acta Academica, 2023 This article argues that the gig economy is an exploitative extension of the informal economy. With its decentralised promise of individual entrepreneurship, I will argue that it places undue burdens on the worker as an ‘independent contractor ...
Danelle Fourie
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Prospects of Integrating Gig Economy in the Saudi Arabian Health-care System from the Perspectives of Health-care Decision-makers and Practitioners [PDF]
Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 2021 Turki Alanzi Health Information Management and Technology Department, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Turki AlanziHealth Information Management and Technology Department, College of ...
Alanzi T
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Navigating autonomy: unraveling the dual influence of job autonomy on workplace well-being in the gig economy [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionWith the rapid rise of the gig economy globally, its characteristics of promoting employment and facilitating autonomy have supported its rapid growth and development in China.
Zhitao Wan +3 more
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Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention [PDF]
Work, Employment and Society, 2023 Niels Van Doorn +2 more
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مجلة الجمعیة المصریة لنظم المعلومات وتکنولوجیا الحاسبات, 2023 Gig economy is a free market system in which temporary positions are common and organisations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements Although the concept of the gig economy has been around for a long time, it has been under increasing scrutiny due to the increasing number of people who are able to access it through the Internet ...
Manisha Suryawanshi, Poonam Ponde
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