What do platforms do? Understanding the gig economy

S Vallas, JB Schor - Annual review of sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its
consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the …

A state-of-the-art review of the sharing economy: Scientometric mapping of the scholarship

A Klarin, Y Suseno - Journal of Business Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Using a dataset of 2,229 scholarly outputs from the Web of Science on the sharing economy
(SE), our scientometric review provides a taxonomy of the current research on the SE in …

Between mutuality, autonomy and domination: rethinking digital platforms as contested relational structures

E Schüßler, W Attwood-Charles… - Socio-Economic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract This Special Issue advances a new understanding of digital platforms as dynamic
and relational. An archetypal transaction platform, we argue, is comprised of three canonical …

Antagonism beyond employment: how the 'subordinated agency'of labour platforms generates conflict in the remote gig economy

AJ Wood, V Lehdonvirta - Socio-Economic Review, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This article investigates why gig economy workers who see themselves as self-employed
freelancers also engage in collective action traditionally associated with regular …

Uber-production: From global networks to digital platforms

G Grabher, E van Tuijl - Environment and Planning A …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Uber and Airbnb have advanced into emblematic cases in debates in which the new digital
capitalism is framed in terms of the so-called sharing economy. While this strand of inquiry …

Disruption, embedded. A Polanyian framing of the platform economy

G Grabher, J König - Sociologica, 2020 - sociologica.unibo.it
Digital platforms disrupt—not just incumbent industries, but also academic imaginations
about the future course of capitalism. While some scholars envision the next great …

Short-term rental market crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stakeholders' perspectives

C Miguel, A Pechurina, B Kirkulak-Uludag… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Contingency plans and crisis management strategies have been implemented by the short-
term rental industry to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines the …

[HTML][HTML] Including the social in the circular: A mapping of the consequences of a circular economy transition in the city of Umeå, Sweden

F Vanhuyse, S Rezaie, M Englund, J Jokiaho… - Journal of cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The circular economy (CE) model, where resources are kept" in the loop" for as long as
possible through a series of reusing, remanufacturing, recycling, and recovery strategies …

Labor market transformation in the hospitality gig economy in a post pandemic era: impacts of institutional governance

PMC Lin, KL Peng, WC Wilson Au… - International Journal of …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the food delivery sector to boom as people
continue to rely on services provided by online catering platforms (OCPs). However …

The platform effect: How Amazon changed work in logistics in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom

A Hassel, F Sieker - European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
While the effects of the platform economy on work are mainly studied through the lens of gig
or cloud workers, many more employees are likely to be affected in non-platform firms or …