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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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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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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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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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Formation of platform co-ops in the European gig economy
, 2021 This database is compiled as part of my PhD project on the challenges that gig workers face when organising themselves in a worker-owned and worker-governed cooperative enterprise.
Damion Bunders (Rotterdam School of Management)
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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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GENDER Platform: Methods module kickoff workshop [PDF]
, 2021 The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), as lead of the Methods Module of the GENDER Platform, organized and hosted the workshop. The workshop was facilitated by Stephan Dohrn of Radical Inclusion and Simrin Makhija, IFPRI.
CGIAR GENDER Platform
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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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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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