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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 ...
Mark Graham +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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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 Mark Graham +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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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Introduction: This paper investigates the international relationship between digitalization, the gig economy, and low carbon development, providing valuable insights for governments and stakeholders seeking to advance sustainable development and a low ...
Kai Liu, Zerong Feng, Qihang Zhang
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