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 …
This article investigates why gig economy workers who see themselves as self-employed freelancers also engage in collective action traditionally associated with regular …
M Kenney, D Bearson, J Zysman - Socio-economic review, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Online platforms are pervasive and powerful in today's economy. We explore the increased centrality of platforms in two ways. First, we measure the extent to which platforms are …
Mit der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung gehen fundamentale gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse einher, die weit über eine bloße Rekonfiguration technischer …
Digital work platforms are often said to view crowdworkers as replaceable cogs in the machine, favouring exit rather than voice as a means of resolving concerns. Based on a …
We witness rising tensions between online gig-economy platforms, incumbent firms, regulators, and labor unions. In this chapter, we use the framework of institutional logics as …
S Kirchner, E Schüßler - Theorizing the sharing economy: Variety and …, 2020 - emerald.com
Critics increasingly highlight the dark sides of the sharing economy resulting from the insufficient regulation of competition, labor, or taxes in its for-profit sector. In this chapter, the …
Rather than viewing online platforms as digital marketplaces, we analyze platforms as corporationsandplatformparticipantsasawor… . Onlineplatformsperformverysimilar functionsasanyothercorporation, butindifferentways …
Working conditions on many digital work platforms often contribute to the grand challenge of establishing decent work. While research has examined the public regulation of platform …