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An alternative organizational model for a more democratic and equitable digital economy: A systematic literature review on platform cooperativism through the lens of stakeholder theory. Competitive advantages and challenges

open access: yesAnnals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Volume 95, Issue 4, Page 1197-1221, December 2024.
Abstract Platform cooperatives, namely, businesses that sell goods or services primarily through a website, mobile app, or protocol and commit to the principles of democratic governance and shared ownership, have lately been proposed as a more sustainable, equitable and, under certain conditions, even efficient alternative to the organizational model ...
Pietro Ghirlanda, Vassil Kirov
wiley   +1 more source

UBER IN EXURBIA: Peripheral Platformization, Post‐Suburbanization and the Public–Private Ridehail Partnership in the Toronto City Region

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 6, Page 1034-1054, November 2024.
Abstract After their widespread legalization, ridehailing companies Uber and Lyft soon embarked on a new stage of their respective business models: the initiation of a wave of strategic partnerships with local and regional transit agencies across the North American continent.
Fabian Namberger
wiley   +1 more source

Territorialisation de la plateforme Airbnb

open access: yesNetcom
Over the past decade, digital platforms have had a significant impact on the way we perceive and practice cities. Airbnb is one such platform. In this article, we'll look at how the expansion of the Airbnb platform is impacting, from a socio-economic ...
Alexandre Grondeau, Gwenaëlle Dourthe
doaj   +1 more source

Uberization of work: a new phenomenon among schoolteachers in São Paulo State, Brazil?

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 2019
This essay aims to problematize and discuss the degree to which uberization of work can actually be characterized as a new phenomenon. The study is based on qualitative research and document analysis concerning hiring formats for teachers from 1999 to ...
S. Venco
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Thematic evolution, emerging trends for sharing economy business model research, and future research directions in the post‐COVID‐19 era

open access: yesR&D Management, Volume 54, Issue 5, Page 1104-1130, November 2024.
This study explored the scientometrics and current dynamics of the area of sharing economy business models (SEBMs). Using bibliometric analysis, it examined a collection of 561 studies from the Web of Science and Scopus databases to detect the thematic evolution, strategy map, and emerging trends in SEBM literature as well as to forecast research ...
Carson Duan
wiley   +1 more source

Taxi Drivers Performing Work through Online Platforms: What Are the Legal Consequences of Labor “Uberization”?

open access: yesActual Problems of Russian Law, 2020
The paper discusses the problems of determining the legal status of drivers of the Uber online platform in the European Union states and the United States of America, where the Uber activities have been perceived by licensed taxi services and trade ...
N. Lyutov, I. Voytkovskaya
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relay-assisted Device-to-Device Networks: Connectivity and Uberization Opportunities [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2019
It has been shown that deploying device-to-device (D2D) networks in urban environments requires equipping a considerable proportion of crossroads with relays. This represents a necessary economic investment for an operator.
Q. Gall   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Theorizing Labor in the Platform Economy: Labor Restructuring in Historical Perspective

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11, November 2024.
ABSTRACT The rise of the platform economy is one of the most widely debated issues in contemporary studies of work and labor relations. Scholarly work on platform labor has been permeated by claims of radical restructuring, either caused or exacerbated by the disruptive properties of algorithms, networks and data‐driven systems of control.
Ahlem Faraoun
wiley   +1 more source

Uberization of the City

open access: yesField Actions Science Reports, 2017
Mayors need to find strategies to manage the uberization of their cities.
Roland Ries, Nicolas Miailhe
doaj  

Work in the digital economy: perspectives on an unprecedented subordination?

open access: yesLabour & Law Issues, 2018
Reading the uberization of work configures the most emblematic example to analyze all the legal considerations about on demand work’s phenomenology. The digital work archetype, through the Uber’s platform, stood out thanks to an innovative planning of ...
Alessia Consiglio
doaj   +1 more source

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