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Fostering sustainability through technology-mediated interactions:Conviviality and reciprocity in the sharing economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
PurposeThis article addresses the lack of scholarly attention paid to the sharing economy from a sociological perspective, with respect to the technology-mediated interactions between sharing economy users.
Carrigan, Marylyn   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Digitrab: Reflexões sobre o cenário do trabalho mediado por plataformas digitais no Brasil / Digiwork: Reflections on the scenario of work mediated by digital platforms in Brazil

open access: yesRAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie, 2023
Objetivo: Este artigo analisa o cenário brasileiro do trabalho mediado por plataformas digitais (digitrab). Originalidade/valor: O digitrab representa o arranjo laboral alternativo ao modelo de emprego tradicional de longo termo que mais tem crescido ...
Laila L. Carneiro   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improvement of the mechanism of collecting windfall taxes and fees in the era of international sanctions and the growth of public spending (2023–2024)

open access: yesФинансы: теория и практика, 2023
The subject of the study is modernization of budget relations based on horizontal decentralized connections. The relevance of the study is mitigation of the shortcomings and risks in 2023, especially the tax on excess profits of previous years.
T. N. Burdelova
doaj   +1 more source

Giving up control: Devaluation of railway work in Luxembourg's fare‐free public transportation system?

open access: yesAnthropology of Work Review, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 94-104, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Luxembourg's implementation of a nationwide fare‐free public transport (FFPT) policy in March 2020 transformed the everyday work and imaginaries of railway accompaniment personnel who had previously been responsible for fare control. It also sparked debate among both workers and the public about the value of their work.
Sonja Faaren Ruud
wiley   +1 more source

Computational entrepreneurship: from economic complexities to interdisciplinary research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The development of technology is unbelievably rapid. From limited local networks to high speed Internet, from crude computing machines to powerful semi-conductors, the world had changed drastically compared to just a few decades ago.
Vuong, Quan-Hoang
core   +2 more sources

Politics of on‐demand food delivery: Policy design and the power of algorithms

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 646-664, September 2023., 2023
Abstract In this article, we examine the politics of on‐demand food delivery using insights from the theory of social construction and policy design. On‐demand food delivery is a service built on algorithm‐based technology known for its precarity and physical risks for couriers.
Meng‐Hsuan Chou, Catherine Gomes
wiley   +1 more source

The politics of Uber: Infrastructural power in the United States and Europe

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 17, Issue 1, Page 177-194, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Platform firms have been depicted as having structural and instrumental power and being able to prevail in regulatory battles. This article, in contrast, documents how they have often adapted to regulations and provide different services across locales. I show that platform firms have a specific type of power, infrastructural power, that stems
Jimena Valdez
wiley   +1 more source

A Research Agenda on MOOCs: The Perspective of Social Sciences, [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Originated to help academic institutions innovate pedagogical models, MOOCs are taking different routes, some of them marked by public policies, others by market strategies.
DE ROSA, Rosanna
core   +2 more sources

Digital transformation, for better or worse: a critical multi‐level research agenda

open access: yesR&D Management, Volume 52, Issue 5, Page 930-954, November 2022., 2022
For better or worse, digital technologies are reshaping everything, from customer behaviors and expectations to organizational and manufacturing systems, business models, markets, and ultimately society. To understand this overarching transformation, this paper extends the previous literature which has focused mostly on the organizational level by ...
Justyna Dąbrowska   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Varieties of Uberization: How technology and institutions change the organization(s) of late capitalism

open access: yesOrganization Theory, 2021
Organization theory faces challenges on all sides, yet it is uniquely suited to help understand and guide our current economic transition. In order to make good on this promise, however, organization theory needs to adopt a rigorously comparative ...
Gerald F. Davis, Aseem Sinha
doaj   +1 more source

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