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Algorithmic precarity and metric power: Managing the affective measures and customers in the gig economy

Big Data & Society, 2022
Drawing on a qualitative, multi-case study of three kinds of geographically tethered gig work—ride-hailing, delivery, and domestic services platforms—in the United States, I examine how workers anticipate the influences of metrics, live with metrics, and
Ngai Keung Chan
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Platform Business Model Innovation for Sustainability: A Framework for Industry 5.0 Integration

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A comprehensive framework is developed for adopting Platform Business Model Innovation (PBMI) to enhance sustainable performance in the Industry 5.0 (I5.0) era. While PBMI plays a growing role in corporate transformation, tensions persist between profit‐driven objectives and broader sustainability imperatives.
Mohamed Ashmel Mohamed Hashim, Issam Tlemsani, Ansarullah Tantry, Songdi Li   +3 more
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The Ghost of Middle Management: Automation, Control, and Heterarchy in the Platform Firm

Sociologica
In an effort to attend to the distinct organizational form of algorithmic management, we interrogate the arrangement of platform labor through the lens of the post-bureaucratic organization instead of that of the industrialized factory.
Janet A. Vertesi, Diana Enriquez
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Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones, Helen Walker, Yingli Wang, Ken Peattie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Career or Gig, How New Work Preferences are Dismantling Traditional Employment?

Advanced Research in Economics and Business Strategy Journal
Introduction: The swift growth of the digital era, which radically disrupted the old work environment, led to the rise of the gig economy and a change in viewpoint in the tandem between employers and employees.
Dickson Mdhlalose
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Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 5 decades of social science research, scholars have examined false narratives and beliefs associated with rape and sexual assault (often called “rape myths”). This scoping review employs an innovative technique to sample and describe a large cohort of scholarly articles that investigate sexual assault victim interpretation and ...
Elizabeth Trudeau, Ruth Carmi
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Objective Financial Situation and Psychological Outlook in the Relationship Between Personal Life Shocks and Financial Well‐Being

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 632-654, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Existing research examines the relationship between personal life shocks and financial well‐being primarily through the lens of objective markers of the individual's financial situation (e.g., liquidity). Little attention has been paid to the relative roles of these objective markers and more intuitive or affect‐based factors in how an ...
Jordan Bell, Jesse Jurgenson, Dee Warmath   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Equality in Virtual Work I.: Risks [PDF]

, 2018
This article focuses on gender equality in virtual work, taking special account of the regulatory challenges. It contributes to broader debates on the workers' situation in the sharing economy in two ways.
Kovacs, Erika
core  

A Modern Union for the Modern Economy [PDF]

, 2018
Membership in traditional unions has steeply declined over the past two decades. As the White House and Congress are now completely Republican controlled, there promises to be no reversal of this trend in the near future. In the face of this rejection of
Hirsch, Jeffrey M., Seiner, Joseph A.
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Measuring Consumer Aversion Toward AI in Marketing Communication and Assessing Its Relationship to Brand Perceptions and Purchase Intention

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some consumers exhibit aversion toward artificial intelligence (AI), particularly when it is embedded in persuasive marketing communication (MarCom). Here, we developed and validated a measure of consumer aversion to AI in MarCom and examined its downstream consequences for brand perceptions and purchase intention.
Louvins Pierre, Viviana Carolina Zambrano Rodriguez, Jiayi (Joy) Wang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source