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Putting Fairness into the Gig Economy: Delivery Cooperatives as Alternatives to Corporate Platforms
Societies, 2023 Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, platform capitalism has expanded greatly in the delivery sector. The consolidation of an oligopoly controlled by a few corporate platforms has led to precarious working conditions for “gig economy” workers.
Ernest Cañada +2 more
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Urban Science, 2020 The aim of this article is to shed light on how ongoing structural change towards the global digital economy condition urban economic development. Discussion starts with a brief reference to the growth machine thesis and its emphasis on the interests of ...
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko +2 more
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The Gig is Up: Who does Gig Economy actually Benefit? [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2021 This article takes on the task of exploring gig economy in its various forms and definitions, starting from its economic origins as a way to reduce transaction costs and overheads in firms making use of modern technology, and working up to some of its ...
Luka Bulian
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La grande scommessa. Turismo e pandemia a Firenze.
Cambio, 2022 This paper is centred on the analysis of some recent developments of the touristic system in the italian city of Firenze. The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard the urban economic system of the city, which is increasingly dependent on tourism.
Alessio Di Marco +2 more
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Google Scholar: Platforming the Scholarly Economy
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 Google Scholar has become an important player in the scholarly economy. Whereas typical academic publishers sell bibliometrics, analytics and ranking products, Alphabet, through Google Scholar, provides “free” tools for academic search and scholarly evaluation that have made it central to academic practice.
Jake Goldenfein, Daniel Griffin
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Platform Economy and Internet Platform Monopoly
BCP Business & Management, 2021 With the development of computer technology and network technology, the era of digital economy has arrived, the Internet platform economy has flourished, and a number of Internet enterprises with certain influence have emerged at home and abroad. Among them, the large Internet enterprises use their own platform's advantageous position in data, traffic ...
Jiuding Li, Shuaiming Gao
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Labour Justice in the Platform Economy
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2022 ABSTRACTRecent years have witnessed the rise of digital platforms that allow economic agents to arrange ever more fine‐grained contracts. This article zooms in on labour‐based platforms that permit the hire of labour in a just‐in‐time fashion (and are part of the broader trend towards on‐demand work).
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The Literature Review of Platform Economy
Scientific Programming, 2020 Since the 1990s, the increasing development of digital-driven technologies such as the Internet, cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things and the popularization of computers and mobile electronic devices have accelerated the evolution of global business organizations, thus making a new form of business organization, platform economy.
Chen Xue, Wuxu Tian, Xiaotao Zhao
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Tic & Société, 2022 This article aims to highlight the role of public authorities and their governance approach in the development of MaaS (Mobility as a Service) - multimodal mobility platforms.
Julia JANKE
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ProceedingsAddressing the dual challenges of plastic sustainability and antibiotic resistance, this work develops cationic cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) with potent inherent antimicrobial activity [...]
Rosa Barranco García +4 more
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