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Developing a Framework for Evaluating the Digital Platform Economy [PDF]
The current digital revolution has given rise to a new organizational form, the Platform company. Today, the most valuable companies in the world and the first ones with a market value of more than a trillion dollars are platform companies.
Mehdi Elyasi +3 more
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Putting Fairness into the Gig Economy: Delivery Cooperatives as Alternatives to Corporate Platforms
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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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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Platform Economy and COVID-19: A Look at Delivery, Home Care, and Online Freelance Work in Spain and Latin America [PDF]
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated trends in the digital economy that were not anticipated for another five or ten years and has upended daily life, introducing new social dynamics and consumption patterns.
Inter-American Development Bank
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The emergence of work under what can broadly be termed ‘platform capitalism’ has coincided with a series of parallel developments in industrial practice and technologies in the United Kingdom.
Mason, L.
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The Impact of the Platform Economy on Urban–Rural Integration Development: Evidence from China
As a new economic system composed of data-driven, platform-supported, and network-coordinated economic activity units, the platform economy provides a new impetus for the integrated development of urban and rural areas. This paper uses China’s provincial
Wang Zhang
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La grande scommessa. Turismo e pandemia a Firenze.
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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Becoming a Platform in Europe [PDF]
Emerging out of the collaborative work conducted within the Working Group “Mechanisms to activate and support the collaborative economy” of the COST Action “From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy”, the book
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The Gig is Up: Who does Gig Economy actually Benefit? [PDF]
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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Google Scholar: Platforming the Scholarly Economy
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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