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Translators in the platform economy: a decent work perspective
In the wake of the platform economy’s transformative influence on translation work, this study aims to address a critical concern: the alignment of translation workers’ labour conditions with the principles of decent work. Through a quantitative analysis
Gökhan Fırat +2 more
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Research Policy, 2022 Platform capitalism has facilitated the widespread replacement of employment contracts with contracts for services. These offer significantly fewer social and employment protections for the independent contractors engaged.
Steven Rolf, J. O’Reilly, M. Meryon
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The impact of Digital Platforms on Business Models: an empirical investigation on innovative start-ups [PDF]
, 2018 Digital platforms have the ability to connect people, organizations and resources with the aim of facilitating the core interactions between businesses and consumers as well as assuring a greater efficiency for the business management.
Bala, Dorina +4 more
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What’s in a word? Platforms Supporting the Platform Economy
Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society, 2020 This paper aspires to develop a deeper understanding of the sharing/collaborative/platform economy, and in particular of the technical mechanisms upon which the digital platforms supporting it are built. In surveying the research literature, the paper identifies a gap between studies from economical, social or socio-technical angles, and presentations ...
Bødker, Susanne +2 more
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Platforms in the Sharing Economy: Does Business Strategy Determine Platform Structure? [PDF]
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019 Sharing economy businesses are increasingly important, but the relationships between their strategies and their platforms’ structure has received insufficient attention. To address this gap, we develop testable hypotheses building on following expectations.
Clemons, Eric +3 more
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Work Organisation Labour & Globalisation, 2021 This study aims to explore work precarity in the platform economy from the perspective of food delivery workers. It also tries to contextualise work precarity in COVID-19 times. With the digital boom, food-based platform aggregators have emerged as a new
Sazzad Parwez, Rajiv Ranjan
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Government Responses to the Platform Economy: Where do we stand? CEPS Policy Insight No 2017-30/July 2017 [PDF]
, 2017 The introduction of the platform economy in Europe has sparked debate on the challenges it raises for workers, companies, social partners, governments and other stakeholders, and how these challenges can be addressed.
Beblavy, Miroslav +2 more
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Improving regional regulatory platform tools for the development of small and medium businesses [PDF]
, 2019 Introduction. Taking into account the priorities of the state policy in the field of economic and innovative development of the Perm region, assessment of the regional potential of the digital economy, the strategic importance of economic activities ...
Kuznetsova, O. A., Zakharkina, A. V.
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Earning Income in the Sharing/On-Demand Economy [PDF]
, 2016 Until 2015, we knew very little about the work and workers in the sharing/on-demand economy. Indeed, the last official government survey of the broader contingent workforce was conducted in 2005 -- long before most of these new platforms or apps even ...
Libby Reder
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Green in Your Wallet or a Green Planet: Views on Government Spending and Climate Change [PDF]
, 2017 The scientific community is a near consensus that climate change is not only anthropogenic but is also a major threat to people around the world. Despite the alarm bells from the scientific community many people in the United States simply deny the ...
Butcher, Lincoln M.
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