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The burden of prolonged sedentary behavior imposed by uberization [PDF]
Sports Medicine and Health Science, 2023 Mobility applications are rapidly growing in cities worldwide due to their convenience and low cost. Mobility applications drivers experience vast flexibility in work hours, often work longer than in fixed-hours jobs, and can constantly transport ...
Thalles Guilarducci Costa +8 more
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Beyond Uberization: The co-constitution of technology and organizing
Organization Theory, 2021 Uberization has emerged as a platform-based form of organizing that is reshaping work and labour markets and that is fundamentally challenging existing thinking on organizing.
Samer Faraj, Stella Pachidi
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Financial Innovation and Technology after COVID-19: a few Directions for Policy Makers and Regulators in the View of Old and New Disruptors [PDF]
Ekonomika, 2021 Innovation and technology have led to the redefinition of business models and development of new ones in many bricks and mortar sectors. Similarly, blockchain and fintech have impacted the finance and banking industries and are expected to further ...
Maurizio Pompella, Lorenzo Costantino
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The ‘uberization of policing’? How police negotiate and operationalise predictive policing technology [PDF]
Policing and Society, 2021 Predictive policing generally refers to police work that utilises strategies, algorithmic technologies, and big data to generate near-future predictions about the people and places deemed likely to be involved in or experience crime.
Ajay Sandhu, Pete Fussey
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Commentary: Is it time for teleophthalmology, virtual glaucoma clinics and uberization of eye care? [PDF]
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021 John Davis Akkara, Anju Kuriakose
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Uberization of Telecom Networks for Cost-Efficient Communication and Computing
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023 This paper discusses the uberization of telecommunication and computing network services. The Uber-like platform business model is discussed for application in future networks together with interesting analogies of communication and computing (2C ...
Hanna Bogucka, Bartosz Kopras
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Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii "Al.I. Cuza" din Iaşi. Ştiinţe Juridice, 2021 The term uberization has become present in the usual language of recent years, with the expansion of the famous american ride-sharing company. The basic principle is that an application installed on the mobile phone can create the connection between an ...
Cătălin Boacnă
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Uberization of labor and Marx’s Capital
Revista Katálysis, 2021 In the last decade, we saw the expansion of digital platforms and decentralized and freelance labor relations in the global capitalist economy. This combination has been called Gig Economy and its specific labor relation Uberization.
Guilherme Nunes Pires
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Uberization as a rupture of path dependence: the case of taxi companies
Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa, 2022 The competitiveness brought by application companies, such as Uber, to the individual transport market is often emphasized. However, an important question remains unanswered: what are the strategies implemented by taxi companies, in terms of improvements
Newton da Silva Miranda Júnior +2 more
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Laboreal, 2021 This article analyzes, in a situated perspective, the antecedent norms that affect the work of platform drivers and food delivery couriers who work using on-demand apps, in order to discuss the implications of these current forms of control and ...
Denise Alvarez +6 more
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