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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 independent contractors (job seeker).
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Pleiades: Literature in ContextThis 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. The gig economy is informally referred to also as the fourth industrial revolution or the 1099 economy, emphasising sharing, freelance, or platform work; it is a complex and ...
Alex J. Wood, Vili Lehdonvirta
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Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy. [PDF]
Work Employ Soc, 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 ...
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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.
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Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics, 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’ that would otherwise be upheld by the employer.
Danelle Fourie
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GIG Economy: A Bibliometric Analysis
Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2023 This study used bibliometric analysis to scrutinize the extant literature on the gig economy and examine how it reflects the GIG economy’s impact on society and workers.
Ali İhsan Balcı, Ersin Eraslan
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Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention. [PDF]
Work Employ Soc, 2023 van Doorn N, Ferrari F, Graham M.
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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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DSI-Insights: Sind die goldenen Jahre der Gig-Economy vorbei? [PDF]
, 2022 Im Rahmen der DSI-Veranstaltungsreihe "The Future of Work" analysierte Niels van Doorn von der Uni Amsterdam Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Gig-Economy.
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