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Meaningful app-work? Exploring meaningful work experiences of food delivery couriers in Poland [PDF]
Central European Management JournalPurpose – The rise of app-based work in the gig economy, particularly within the food delivery sector, challenges traditional employment paradigms and raises questions about the potential for achieving meaningful work experiences.
Aneta Pieczka, Miłosz Miszczyński
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The law and worker voice in the gig economy
, 2022 The organisation of work through platforms has accelerated the process of fragmentation, casualisation and erosion of the 'standard employment relationship' between workers and employers. This chapter explores the philosophical foundations and structures
Buendia, Ricardo; id_orcid, Bogg, Alan
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Employee green behaviour (EGB) is essential for advancing organisational sustainability, yet the role of emotional support mechanisms in fostering different types of EGB remains underexamined. This study examines how perceived organisational support (POS), perceived supervisory support (PSS) and affective commitment interact with a green ...
Duncan Maguire +2 more
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Disadvantaged workers are not all alike in attitudes towards automation
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesAutomated vehicle (AV) adoption is anticipated to affect millions of motor vehicle operators, including gig drivers (platform-based ride-hailing and/or delivery drivers).
Amy M. Schuster +6 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how and why individual knowledge sharing fosters ambidextrous behavior among nonmanagerial employees in an operationally intensive, environmentally sensitive industry. We conducted a survey of 243 operators across 10 plants of an international lime producer, finding that knowledge sharing is positively related to individual
Laurent Scaringella +2 more
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The Ghost of Middle Management: Automation, Control, and Heterarchy in the Platform Firm
SociologicaIn 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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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates key barriers to the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of food quick commerce (Q‐commerce) logistics, using Iran as a representative emerging economy. This study is timely because it examines a rapidly evolving form of urban logistics in which speed, convenience, and sustainability are increasingly in ...
Seyed Hamid Hashemi Petrudi +3 more
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Worker agency in the gig-economy: The case of food delivery gig workers in Rustenburg, South Africa
, 2023 The rise of the platform-based gig-economy globally has been linked to the disruption in the labour process and worker agency. We have seen the proliferation of digital platforms and gig-work in recent years following the outbreak of the COVID-19 ...
Moroane, Kagiso
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Az-Zarqa'The gig economy, which is rapidly growing in the digital era, offers flexibility and broader access to employment opportunities. However, this system also presents challenges to workers' welfare and fairness, including income instability, limited ...
Gayan Asykar Sahida +2 more
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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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