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The Rise of Computational Entrepreneurship
This short manuscript proposes a new academic discipline of computational entrepreneurship, which centers on: i) An exponentially growing (and less expensive) computing power, to the extent that almost everybody in a modern society can own and use that; ii) Omnipresent high-speed Internet connectivity, wired or wireless, representing our modern day...
An examination of the relationship between flexible work arrangements, work-family conflict, organizational commitment, and job performance
PDF8 pages Gig economy
Summary Many employees are often faced with an inter-role conflict between work and that of a family in the U.S. However, business leaders and Human Resource Management (HRM) may not recognize the problem affecting white-collar employees. The purpose of this non-experimental quantitative study was to determine whether or not a relations...
Future of Work Gig Economy NACo.pdf
NACo COUNTIES FUTURES LAB • NOVEMBER 2017 The Future of Work The Rise of the Gig Economy Dr. Emilia Istrate Managing Director, Counties Futures Lab Jonathan Harris Research Associate The Future of Work: The Rise of the Gig Economy 2 Counties Futures Lab ■ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of COUNTIES The Hon. Rich Fitzgerald County Executive, Allegheny County,...
New Open Digital Marketplaces: Giving Buy, Sell and Trust Control Back to Users
PDF9 pages Gig economy
Companies such as Amazon, Flipkart, Zomato, Oyo and Uber which we refer to as Digital Marketplaces are globally emerging across different business sectors. These marketplaces connect buyers and sellers and the marketplace owners act as central trustworthy authority to provide trade assurances. However, such a trust model could be problematic. Witho...
Platform policy and regulation: towards a radical democratic turn
This article considers challenges to policy and regulation presented by the dominant digital platforms. A radical democratic framing of the deliberative process is developed to acknowledge the full complexity of power relations that are in play in policy and regulatory debates and this view is contrasted with a liberal democratic perspective. We sh...
The sharing economy: what, how and why (not)?
Digitalisation is having a growing impact on our daily lives: it has changed the way we connect with others, the way we do business and how we consume. In recent years, electronic platforms have emerged that link individuals with one another, but also offer them the opportunity to share goods or assets or to exchange services. In what follows, we w...
Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreements (CA)
PDF9 pages Negotiation
© 2017 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. Search the Resource ID numbers in blue on Practical Law for more. Resource ID: w-005-7021 Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreements (CA) MARK E. TERMAN AND SUJATA P. WIESE, DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH LLP, WITH PRACTICAL LAW COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS This Practice Note discusses overall protection of a ...
New Data on Contingent and Alternative Employment Hides Mounting Job Quality Issues
New Data on Contingent and Alternative Employment Hides Mounting Job Quality Issues COMMENTARY WORK New Data on Contingent and Alternative Employment Hides Mounting Job Quality Issues JUNE 19, 2018 https://tcf.org/topics/economy-jobs/work/ https://tcf.org/ Spurred by the meteoric rise of platform employment companies (most notably Lyft, Uber, Hand...
Early-Stage Entrepreneurship: Some Key Indicators and a Summary Index
Entrepreneurship is a process and a series of dynamic steps, rather than a binary or static outcome. To provide more granular insights into the early stages of entrepreneurship, we elaborate on four indicators and a summary index capturing different dimensions of entrepreneurial activity within the population and within new businesses. The purpose ...
The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Dea.pdf
PDF10 pages Gig economy
The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - The New Yorker 3/24/17, 11)09 AMThe Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - The New Yorker Page 1 of 10http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death JIA TOLENTINO THE GIG ECONOMY CELEBRATES WORKING YOURSELF TO DEATH By Jia Tolent...
Digital Modernism, Part 1: Platform Capitalism and Beyond
Modernism Unbound 1 Digital Modernism, Part 1: Platform Capitalism and Beyond Jon Lindblom The sociocultural ecologies of 20th century modernism may roughly be divided into two cate- gories: those of high modernism (museums, academic art institutions, upscale concert halls, etc.) – which generally have lacked wider sociocultural implementation – a...
algorithms platforms and ethnic bias a diagnostic model.pdf
PDF10 pages Liberalism
BRIE Working Paper 2019-4 ALGORITHMS, PLATFORMS, AND ETHNIC BIAS: A DIAGNOSTIC MODEL Selena Silva and Martin Kenney BERKELEY ROUNDTABLE ON THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY 1 Forthcoming in Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery November 2019 Algorithms, Platforms, and Ethnic Bias: A Diagnostic Model Selena Silva Research Assistant and M...
How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home.pdf
title NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HOW MANY JOBS CAN BE DONE AT HOME? Jonathan I. Dingel Brent Neiman Working Paper 26948 http://www.nber.org/papers/w26948 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2020 The authors have no financial relationships relevant to this research. The views expressed herein are ...
The Cooperative Transformation
The growing trend to cross-corporate projects done as businesses between customers and contractors challenge the ability of organizations and individuals to cooperate. Humans and their organizations are generally able to cooperate, however, the specific setting with its issues on project management level as much as on legal and commercial level mak...
Between Pressure and Flexibility: Provider Scheduling in the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy offers individuals various opportunities to generate additional income through sharing their personal possessions with strangers. The flexibility promised by sharing platforms, to share when and how often individuals prefer, has been highlighted as the key advantage of the sharing economy model. However, for sharing platforms wh...
ATYPICAL WORK IN THE DIGITAL AGE – OUTLINE OF A TRADE UNION STRATEGY FOR THE GIG ECONOMY
FS_Numhauser_Henning_Offprint FESTSKRIFT TILL ANN NUMHAUSER-HENNING OFFPRINT Juristförlaget i Lund 2017 219ATYPICAL WORK IN THE DIGITAL AGE SAMUEL ENGBLOM ATYPICAL WORK IN THE DIGITAL AGE – OUTLINE OF A TRADE UNION STRATEGY FOR THE GIG ECONOMY 1 Introduction The regulation of fixed-term work was the subject of Ann Numhauser- Henning’s 1984 PhD the...
STABLE AND PREDICTABLE SCHEDULING AS ANTIDOTE TO INCOME VOLATILITY
PDF10 pages Volatility (finance)
EPIC has identified unpredictable and unstable worker schedules as a major driver of income volatility and believes there is a growing consensus that reforms are needed. This brief synthesizes the current research on scheduling instability, chronicles the most promising responses by the institutions best positioned to act – employers, government, a...
An Entrepreneur Point-of-View About Policies to Support Innovation in Sharing Economy Era
Entrepreneurship can take form as intrapreneurship within an established company, creation of new businesses, and innovation of processes. Creation of new businesses have important part in prosperity and development of regions, where the entrepreneurs are the actors who make the new businesses.
70 STATE OF MAIN WINTER 2019
STATE OF MAIN WINTER 201970 By Dell Gines Economies grow best when everyone has an opportunity to be productive and create wealth. 71THE IMPORTANCE OF INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEMS I am an Omaha, Nebraska, native. I was born, raised, and still live in our Black community here, which we call North Omaha. I remember vividly when a 2007 Omaha...
CoGtHR policy brief no.1 June2017 CyberJustice.pdf
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Microsoft Word - CoGtHR_policy-brief_no.1-June2017_CyberJustice_cho_ah Cyber Justice Dr. Anja Mihr Program Director, Center on Governance through Human Rights 1 POLICY BRIEF | No. 1 June 2017 Justice in Cyberspace The HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Center on Governance through Human Rights fosters the idea of Cyber Justice as an approach for defining how good ...
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