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Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2022
With the outbreak of COVID-19 and some environmental problems in recent years, consumers prefer to shop online and purchase green products. Considering the benefit of the e-commerce platform, offline retailers face the challenge of whether to enter e ...
Kaiying Cao, Yu Su, Yuqiu Xu, Qiang Guo
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With the outbreak of COVID-19 and some environmental problems in recent years, consumers prefer to shop online and purchase green products. Considering the benefit of the e-commerce platform, offline retailers face the challenge of whether to enter e ...
Kaiying Cao, Yu Su, Yuqiu Xu, Qiang Guo
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The steam platform economy: From retail to player-driven economies
New Media & Society, 2022In this article, I analyse the Steam platform as a configuration of several market contexts. I argue that Valve, the owner of Steam, maintains a classical retail market catering to large game publishers, while the emphasis of Valve’s own game titles is ...
Anne Mette Thorhauge
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2020
Abstract This chapter charts which rules concerning contracts and consumer protection have until now emerged in public and private regulation. These contain a mix of public regulation, co-regulation, codes of conduct, soft law projects to develop model rules, and reputational feedback systems.
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Abstract This chapter charts which rules concerning contracts and consumer protection have until now emerged in public and private regulation. These contain a mix of public regulation, co-regulation, codes of conduct, soft law projects to develop model rules, and reputational feedback systems.
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2017
IPLATE (Integrating platform competences toward network effects) is a research project prompted by the success and disruption by digital platforms, platform companies and platform‐based business models. The project approaches platforms as an interactive, collaborative marketplace: integrating technical competences with creating business from ...
Still, Kaisa +6 more
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IPLATE (Integrating platform competences toward network effects) is a research project prompted by the success and disruption by digital platforms, platform companies and platform‐based business models. The project approaches platforms as an interactive, collaborative marketplace: integrating technical competences with creating business from ...
Still, Kaisa +6 more
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New Media & Society, 2020
This article examines how on-demand service workers on digital platforms make and live their time in the case of China’s food delivery industry. Using ethnographic data, the study elucidated multiple facets of couriers’ temporality in their struggle to ...
J. Chen, P. Sun
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This article examines how on-demand service workers on digital platforms make and live their time in the case of China’s food delivery industry. Using ethnographic data, the study elucidated multiple facets of couriers’ temporality in their struggle to ...
J. Chen, P. Sun
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Theorizing Labor in the Platform Economy: Labor Restructuring in Historical Perspective
Sociology CompassThe rise of the platform economy is one of the most widely debated issues in contemporary studies of work and labor relations. Scholarly work on platform labor has been permeated by claims of radical restructuring, either caused or exacerbated by the ...
Ahlem Faraoun
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‘Strong regulations’ of China’s platform economy: a preliminary assessment
China Economic Journal, 2022Within two decades, China built a very large platform economy. From the beginning of 2021, however, the Chinese government started to implement a set of new policies, popularly known as ‘strong regulations’, in order to correct improper platform behavior
Yiping Huang
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Does it pay to work? Unpaid labour in the platform economy
Social Science Research Network, 2022is Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. Agnieszka Piasna is Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels. Markieta Domecka is Post-doctoral Researcher at KU Leuven.
V. Pulignano +4 more
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Work, Employment and Society, 2021
Despite considerable scholarly attention to the proliferation of gig work on digital platforms, research tracing the broad trends of labour relations is scant.
P. Sun, Julie Yujie Chen, U. Rani
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Despite considerable scholarly attention to the proliferation of gig work on digital platforms, research tracing the broad trends of labour relations is scant.
P. Sun, Julie Yujie Chen, U. Rani
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Labouring (on) the app: agency and organisation of work in the platform economy
Gender & Development, 2022Women have a long history of organising in the informal economy, despite facing several challenges around geographical dispersion, time poverty, and lack of recognition.
A. Tandon, Abhishek Sekharan
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