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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 +3 more
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Precarity and Solidarity in Gig Work: The Dynamics of Platform-Mediated Cleaning in Norway
Nordisk VälfärdsforskningThis article delves into how workers’ motivations and dependency on platform work influence their willingness to engage in solidarity. This study, using worker-centred data, investigates platform-mediated domestic cleaning, an understudied sector in the ...
Erik T. Valestrand
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Uber Effort: The Production of Worker Consent in Online Ride Sharing Platforms [PDF]
, 2019 The rise of the online gig economy alters ways of working. Mediated by algorithmically programmed mobile apps, platforms such as Uber and Lyft allow workers to work by driving and completing rides at any time or in any place that the drivers choose. This
Wang, Ruotong
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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 +2 more
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International Journal of Engineering Business ManagementDigital platforms play a vital role in shaping today’s labour market, enabling temporary hires and freelance employment in the gig economy. This on-demand, digital economy spans various professions and remote work opportunities.
Rachoru Himani Srihita +3 more
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ПравоприменениеThe subject. Legal support of social guarantees for persons employed in the gig economy: russian and foreign experienceThe purpose of the article is to reveal the features of providing social guarantees to gig workers, as well as protecting their rights ...
S. M. Mironova
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Influence of Particle Size, Moisture, and Cloud Density on Wood Dust Ignition
Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.The ignition and combustion of particle clouds are strongly affected by particle interactions. This study uses spectroscopy to examine effects of particle size, water content, and cloud density. Results show ignition delay rises with larger size and density, whereas combustion duration depends mainly on water and density due to moisture‐driven ...
Matteo Giesen +2 more
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How Gig Worker Responds to Negative Customer Treatment: The Effects of Work Meaningfulness and Traits of Psychological Resilience. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Xiongtao H +3 more
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A Commentary on Litigation Involving Uber Technologies, Inc. [PDF]
, 2018 Uber Technologies, Inc. is a peer-to-peer ridesharing, food delivery, and transportation network managed in San Francisco, California. Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp developed the idea for the ridesharing app in 2008, after experiencing difficulty ...
Hagemeier, Catherine
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Hidden Markov graphical models with state‐dependent generalized hyperbolic distributions
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we develop a novel hidden Markov graphical model to investigate time‐varying interconnectedness between different financial markets. To identify conditional correlation structures under varying market conditions and accommodate shape features embedded in financial time series, we rely upon the generalized hyperbolic family of ...
Beatrice Foroni +2 more
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