Producing speed on demand: Reconfiguration of space and time in food delivery platform work

Y Zheng, PF Wu - Information Systems Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Existing IS research on platform work has narrowly focused on the managerial operations of
algorithmic management or its business implications. Limited research has paid attention to …

Algorithmic control in platform food delivery work

K Griesbach, A Reich, L Elliott-Negri, R Milkman - Socius, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Building on an emerging literature concerning algorithmic management, this article analyzes
the processes by which food delivery platforms control workers and uncovers variation in the …

Temporal arbitrage, fragmented rush, and opportunistic behaviors: The labor politics of time in the platform economy

JY Chen, P Sun - New Media & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines how on-demand service workers on digital platforms make and live
their time in the case of China's food delivery industry. Using ethnographic data, the study …

Algorithmic management in food‐delivery platform economy in China

H Huang - New Technology, Work and Employment, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the organisation of work under algorithmic control in the platform
economy. Based on a 1‐year ethnographic study conducted at top food‐delivery platforms in …

The online platform economy in 2018: Drivers, workers, sellers, and lessors

D Farrell, F Greig, A Hamoudi - JPMorgan Chase Institute, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
Just a decade ago, the Online Platform Economy comprised a handful of marketplaces
connecting independent sellers to buyers of physical goods. Today, many consumers use …

How does algorithm control affect platform workers' responses? Algorithm as a digital Taylorism

S Park, S Ryoo - Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic …, 2023 - mdpi.com
While many online labor platforms have adopted algorithms to monitor or control workforces
as a new form of algorithm management, there is no academic attempt to empirically …

Speeding up, slowing down, losing grip: On digital media metronomes and timespace friction in the platformised temporalities of fashion design

A Repenning - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The body of literature addressing platform capitalism, platform labour and platform urbanism
paints a compelling picture of how digital platforms shape the dynamics of both leisure and …

The limits of algorithmic management: on platforms, data, and workers' struggle

J Woodcock - South Atlantic Quarterly, 2021 - read.dukeupress.edu
Much of the existing research on platform work has focused on the role of data and
algorithmic management. These new techniques of management need to be critically …

Platform economy and platformization

A Athique, V Parthasarathi - Platform capitalism in India, 2020 - Springer
In this book, we begin to interrogate the phenomenon of India's expanding platform
economy in terms of both rationale and process, linking a series of empirical inquiries to a …

Who is pulling the strings in the platform economy? Accounting for the dark and unexpected sides of algorithmic control

E Pignot - Organization, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper aims to address the dark side perspective on digital control and surveillance by
emphasizing the affective grip of ideological control, namely the process that silently …