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Dependence and precarity in the platform economy. [PDF]
Theory Soc, 2020 The rapid growth of Uber and analogous platform companies has led to considerable scholarly interest in the phenomenon of platform labor. Scholars have taken two main approaches to explaining outcomes for platform work-precarity, which focuses on employment classification and insecure labor, and technological control via algorithms.
Schor JB +4 more
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, Algorithmic Management in the Platform Economy [PDF]
Journal of Economic Sociology, 2021 The platform model is the distinguishing organizational form of the early decades of the twenty-first century. Whereas actors in markets contract, hierarchies command, and networks collaborate, platforms co-opt assets, resources, and activities that are not part of the firm.
Pais, Ivana, Stark, David
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Older People in the Platform Economy. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2019 Since the platform economies have emerged, there are many new ways how people can perform earning activities. These new opportunities concern older people too. However, some authors write that the actors of the platform economy are mainly younger people and it is not typical that older people work through platforms. We cite the opposite case of Oszkar (
Berde E.
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Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2023 Composite development indices show an exponential movement of major economic indicators to identify and predict the overall trend of the national economy.
Jungyeol Hong +3 more
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Homines Diversi: Heterogeneous Earner Behaviors in the Platform Economy
Sociologica, 2021 The platform economy has entered its second decade, and researchers are developing new theorizations of it as an economic form. One important feature is a heterogeneous labor force with respect to hours of work. In this paper, we identify another type of
Mehmet Cansoy +3 more
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Market Definition in the Platform Economy
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 AbstractThe article addresses the role market definition can play for EU competition practice in the platform economy. The focus is on intermediaries that bring together groups of users whose decisions are interdependent, which therefore are commonly referred to as ‘two-sided platforms’.
Franck, Jens-Uwe, Peitz, Martin
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, 2022 The Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing is, quite simply, the definitive reference work in the field. Carefully curated by leading tourism scholar Dimitrios Buhalis, this is the largest tourism management and marketing ontology that has ever been put together and offers a holistic examination of this interdisciplinary field. An invaluable
Rivera García, Jorge +1 more
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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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Regionalization of the Digital Economic Space: Contours of Emerging Approaches [PDF]
Prostranstvennaâ Èkonomika, 2022 An inhomogeneous economic space, representing a multitude of interactions between geographically distributed economic agents, can be differentiated into a number of districts.
Viktor Ivanovich Blanutsa
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The gender of the platform economy
Internet Policy Review, 2022 The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the expansion of the platform economy (PE), which promotes working from distributed places mediated by digital platforms, and is disrupting work and life organisation. To date, PE effects on gender equality are largely unexplored, while in parallel gender equality achievements are recoiling, and gender-based violence
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