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Annals of Public and Cooperative EconomicsAbstractPlatform cooperatives, namely, businesses that sell goods or services primarily through a website, mobile app, or protocol and commit to the principles of democratic governance and shared ownership, have lately been proposed as a more sustainable, equitable and, under certain conditions, even efficient alternative to the organizational model of
Vassil Kirov, Pietro Ghirlanda
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Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion and Co-optation [PDF]
Critical Sociology, 2019 Platform cooperativism proposes to create an alternative to the corporate sharing economy based on a model of democratically owned and governed co-operatives. The idea sounds simple and convincing: cut out the corporate middleman and replace Uber with a service owned and managed by taxi drivers themselves, create a version of Airbnb run by cities, or ...
Sandoval, M.
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, 2021 Le développement fulgurant des plateformes numériques au début de la décennie 2010 laissait espérer l’émergence d’une économie plus émancipatrice et démocratique. Pourtant, loin des idéaux de l’économie collaborative, de nombreuses voix ont rapidement dénoncé la domination écrasante de l’économie de plateformes par une poignée d’entreprises ...
Compain, Guillaume
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The challenges of platform cooperativism and the path ahead
This chapter explores the legacy and emerging dual challenges of platform cooperatives. The first section examines the longstanding issue of political identity in both traditional and platform cooperativism through an extensive textual analysis of historical and contemporary scholars.
Tortorici, Stefano
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Cooperativism in the American Adversarial Tradition [PDF]
, 2021 American civil litigation is adversarial both-in the sense of fitting within the adversarial tradition of party-driven litigation followed in most common-law countries, and in the sense of being aggressively combative.
Dodson, Scott
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The unexpected persistence of non-corporate platforms: The role of local and network embeddedness
Digital Geography and Society, 2021 The Covid19-pandemic has accelerated processes in which digital platforms, privileged by their critical size, become central instances of urban life. While most scholars associate platform urbanism with transnational platform corporations, such as Amazon
Filipe Mello Rose
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Data, 2021 In recent years, the platform economy has been recognised by researchers and governments around the world for its potential to contribute to the sustainable development of society.
Mayo Fuster Morell +2 more
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Commoning in the Digital Era: Platform Cooperativism as a Counter to Cognitive Capitalism [PDF]
Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2018 With the widespread adoption of ICT technologies, platforms, social media and sharing economy businesses have emerged as models of economic organization. This paper examines their functioning on a micro level to provide a thorough critique. The theory of
Zygmuntowski, Jan J.
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Platform cooperativism and public policies
Dr Calzada is panelist in the event "Platform Cooperativism and Public Policies", with policy makers and researchers around this discussion on April 30 (saturday) - 3PM CEST, duration of two hours, with simultaneous translation Portuguese-English (and ...
Calzada, Igor
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Social Sciences, 2023 It is often argued that digital labour platforms entail an expansion of opportunities for women for several reasons. They facilitate the balance between paid work and household chores as a result of time flexibility, they eliminate entry and permanence ...
Denise Kasparian +3 more
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