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Microsoft Word - Benjamins-OrgGuideRespAI_V3.docx Towards organizational guidelines for the responsible use of AI Richard Benjamins1 Abstract.1 In the past few years, several large companies have published ethical principles of Artificial Intelligence (AI). National governments, the European Commission, and inter-governmental organizations have co...
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In Uberland, Alex Rosenblat takes readers on a journey through the ride-hailing work culture of Uber drivers: how they work, communicate, and form communities. The author combines interviews, digital ethnography, and participant observation to show how technology, specifically algorithmic management, categorizes workers as consumers of technology y...
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Division, austerity, the gig economy: migration isn’t our biggest labour market problem 13/03/2017 Division, austerity, the gig economy: migration isn’t our biggest labour market problem blogs.lse.ac.uk /brexit/2017/03/13/division-austerity-the-gig-economy-migration-isnt-our-biggest-labour-market- problem/ Policymakers are beginning to wake up to ...
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Sustainable Platform Cooperativism : Towards social and environmental justice in the future of the gig-economy This is a repository copy of Sustainable Platform Cooperativism : Towards social and environmental justice in the future of the gig-economy. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/147497/ Version: Pu...
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Regulating Access to Work in the Gig Labor Market: The Case of Uber Employment Research Newsletter Volume 24 | Number 3 Article 2 2017 Regulating Access to Work in the Gig Labor Market: The Case of Uber Morris M. Kleiner University of Minnesota This title is brought to you by the Upjohn Institute. For more information, please contact ir@upjohn.org...
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Microsoft Word - 2 megan wright.docx 6 Gig Economy: Construction vs Reality Megan Wright Looking at the dominant labour processes of a society can reveal a lot more than just an insight into the world of work, it can often tell us about the values and ideologies of that society. After the crisis of Fordism we saw a transition to a post-Fordist app...
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Paper Title (use style: paper title) Research on the Characteristics of Platform Business Incubation Unicorn in the Background of Platform Economy Pei Ji * School of Management Chengdu University of Information Technology Chengdu, China Guiqing Li School of Management Chengdu University of Information Technology Chengdu, China Abstract—With the ra...
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26 P E R S P E C T I V E S O N W O R K / 2 0 1 8 I N T E R N AT I O N A L D I G I TA L L A W The Legal Landscape of the Global Gig Economy by Ruben J . Garc ia Ruben Garcia explains the global uncertainties of work in the “gig economy.” • The question of who is an employee and who is a contractor becomes more complicated jurisdictionally in the gl...
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Gig economy jobs rely heavily on the use of platforms including mobile applications. Even though such platforms are necessary to participate in the gig economy, we know very little about how the quality of these platforms affects gig workers. Drawing from a survey of Uber drivers, in this paper we examine the impacts of platform quality on gig work...
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Review of Professors in the gig economy: Unionizing adjunct faculty in America McAvoy Jr., J P. (2020, March 11). Review of Professors in the gig economy: Unionizing adjunct faculty in America by K. Tolley (Ed.). Education Review, 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/er.v27.2757 March 11, 2020 ISSN 1094-5296 Tolley, K. (Ed.). (2018). Professors in the g...
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With the rapid development of the platform economy, platform enterprises are considered to be the most likely field to incubate unicorns in the future. In order to study the influencing factors of platform enterprises incubating unicorns under the background of the platform economy, this paper analyzes the characteristics of platform enterprises, t...
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Gig economy workers enjoy flexibility in choosing certain aspects of their work. Nonetheless, platform companies still need to control workers’ behaviors to scale their business and ensure customers quality service. Mechanisms of control have been widely studied in traditional organizations; however, work in the gig economy differs from traditional...
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The nature of work is changing, with workers enduring increasingly precarious working conditions without any safety net. In response, this Article proposes a new “Concentric Circle framework” which would improve workers’ access to civil, labor, and employment rights. Many businesses, including app-based platforms, have restructured toward “fissured...
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Digitalization as the Problem of and the Solution to Vast Amounts of Data in Future Work – Challenges for Individuals, Teams,and Organizations Editorial Digitalization as the Problem of and the Solution to Vast Amounts of Data in Future Work – Challenges for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations Annette Kluge1, Conny H. Antoni2, and Thomas Ellwart...
PDF5 pages The Internet Sharing economy Commerce
In the face of the legal risks and challenges under the market innovation of the shared economic model, it is necessary to innovate the relevant systems and establish a system which is compatible with the shared economic model so as to promote the healthy development of the sharing economy. First of all, the legal status of participants in the shar...
PDF5 pages Sharing economy Information asymmetry Industrial organization
The purpose of this article is to explain the extent to which information asymmetry influences the partnership relationship between application providers and application partners in economics. This article will focus the argumentation on power imbalances in the relationship between application providers and application partners for online transport...
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The gig economy is widely regarded to be a source of secondary or temporary income, but little is known about economic activity outside of the gig economy. Using data from a large, online personal finance application, I document the evolution of non-gig income and household balance sheets surrounding the participation decision for gig economy jobs....
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Template PME 40 1 2019. In NNN (Eds.). Proceedings of the PME & Yandex Russian Conference, pp. XX-YY. Moscow, Russia: PME. FROM GIG ECONOMY TO GIG EDUCATION Olga Kosheleva, Julian Viera, Vladik Kreinovich University of Texas at El Paso Modern economy has benefited from gig economy idea, where, instead of hiring permanent employees, a company a...
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2593 laura.seppanen@ttl.fi Seppänen, Hasu, Käpykangas, Poutanen On-demand work in platform economy: implications for sustainable development 1 Laura Seppänen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland Mervi Hasu, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Sari Käpykangas, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Tampere, Finland Seppo Pou...
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Is New Platform Work Different than Other Freelancing? By Andrew Garin, Emilie Jackson, Dmitri K. Koustas and Carl McPherson∗ The rise of freelance work in the online platform economy (OPE) has received con- siderable media and policy attention in re- cent years. However, freelance work is by no means a new phenomenon, and recent anal- ysis indica...