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Gigs of their own: reinventing worker cooperativism in the platform economy and its implications for collective action [PDF]
, 2021 Based on the significant collective action problems that gig workers face, sociologists would generally expect that these workers take a mostly individualistic approach to improving their position. Nonetheless, various forms of collective action by gig workers can be observed in practice.
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Co‐constructing cooperative value ecosystems: A critical realist perspective
Information Systems Journal, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 504-544, March 2025.Abstract This study focuses on digital platform cooperatives (DPCs) and investigates how social value is created within platform cooperativism for fostering a more equitable and inclusive digital landscape. We explore and theorise the outcomes of social value creation by DPCs and identify the generative mechanisms that drive their emergence. We do this
Jun Zhang +3 more
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The Blown Head Gasket Effect: Rise and struggles of The Drivers Cooperative in New York City
Internet Policy ReviewThis paper presents an in-depth case study of The Drivers Cooperative (TDC), a driver-owned ride-hailing platform based in New York City, to examine the challenges faced by multistakeholder platform cooperatives. Drawing on 16 semi-structured interviews,
Stefano Tortorici
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Chained to the App: German Bike Couriers Riding into Digital Capitalism
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & CritiqueIn the digital age of platformization and digital capitalism, this study demonstrates the significant role of institutionalized relationships in influencing autonomy-control dynamics within platform companies.
Jasmin Schreyer
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Endonormative stabilization in Philippine English lexis
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 555-570, December 2024.Abstract In the past 10 years, we have seen an enormous increase in the interest in Philippine English (PhilE) vocabulary. This is especially documented by the new entries of distinctive PhilE words in the Oxford English dictionary. Thanks to the rise of electronic mega‐corpora, such as GloWbE and the NOW Corpus, it has become possible to discover even
Thomas Biermeier
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Business strategies towards climate‐smart agriculture in Europe: A literature review
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 5073-5085, September 2024.Abstract In response to increasing demands for sustainability, the entire agri‐food sector is in transition towards climate‐smart agriculture (CSA). The academic discourse on CSA has substantially expanded, including a large number of empirical studies, quite often case studies.
Gohar Isakhanyan +3 more
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Human Resource Management, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 413-426, May/June 2024.Abstract This paper reflects on the paradigmatic assumptions and ideologies that have shaped algorithmic management research. We identify two sets of assumptions: one about the “ontology of algorithms” (which holds that human resource management [HRM] algorithms are non‐human entities with material agency) and one about the “ontology of management ...
Laura Lamers +2 more
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Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 206-228, January 2024.Abstract In 2016, the City of Toronto legalised the ridehail giant Uber under a particularly Uber‐friendly regulatory regime. Rather than understanding this interim outcome along the lines of now widespread narratives of corporate “disruption”, in this article I take up Manuel B.
Fabian Namberger
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Solidarity across borders: Decoding the functionality of CoopCycle in Latin America
Internet Policy ReviewThis research analyses the processes of CoopCycle’s adaptation in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico between 2020 and 2023. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach that integrates Socio-Technical Analysis and Social Network Analysis, it seeks to answer the ...
Alexandra Belén Gualavisí +1 more
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