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Microsoft Word - 03_12_VMBO_service platform ontology.docm Defining sharing economy, marketplace and other service platform related concepts: A reference ontology approach Thomas Derave1[0000-0003-1547-8333], Tiago Prince Sales2[0000-0002-5385-5761], Frederik Gailly1[0000-0003-0481-9745], Geert Poels1[0000-0001-9247-6150] 1Department of Business I...
Interface: a journal for and about social movements Sharing stories of struggles: 17 April 2020 Duke, Gig economy workers’ movements 1 The effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the gig economy and zero hour contracts Benjamin Duke, 13 April, UK Abstract In most Western liberal democracies, state economic responses to COVID-19 have done little to prote...
The paper analyzes some characteristics of the contemporary world economy and highlights the major challenges related to socio-economic areas and, on a broader scale, to economic growth and development. The research identifies as possible solutions for those challenges related to inequality, poverty and the impact of the fourth industrial revolutio...
AOM Best Paper Submission # 20302 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.67 ALLIES OR ADVERSERIES?: MAKING MEANING OF THE GIG EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP LINDSEY D. CAMERON Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19103 ldcamer@wharton.upenn.edu INTRODUCTION Task Rabbit. Doordash. Instacart. The on-demand or ‘gig’ economy is rapidly changing how work is...
Artificial intelligence will improve productivity, expand the economy, and significantly alter many jobs. To accommodate these changes, Maine will have to upgrade workforce skills in a rapidly changing economy. This article recommends policy proposals in response to the rise of artificial intelligence, including (1) training programs for current an...
The purpose of the article is to study the concept and prospects for the development of freelancing within the framework of modern economic realities of the development of society, and also to highlight the legal status of a freelancer in accordance with modern legislation. The methodological basis of this study includes the dialectical method of k...
The free-market approach of work has risen for the past few years. The on-demand workforce has a preference to stay in nontraditional employment and are generally satisfied with their income and the elasticity of employment that contingent work offers. Independent workers are also less likely to grow their careers in the same manner as a traditiona...
The nature of business-related careers, and particularly organizational ones, has changed drastically over the last many years. Non-traditional careers of the past are rapidly becoming the norm. Classic career management literature focused on managing and being successful in organizational careers. However, the environment has changed, and research...
The University of Manchester Research Extended Work Lives and the Rediscovery of the 'Disadvantaged' Older Worker Document Version Final published version Link to publication record in Manchester Research Explorer Citation for published version (APA): Phillipson, C., & Lain, D. (2019). Extended Work Lives and the Rediscovery of the 'Disadvanta...
The sharing economy can be regarded as a discontinuous innovation that creates increased abundance throughout society. Extant literature on the sharing economy has been predominantly concerned with Uber and Airbnb. As little is known about where the sharing economy is gaining momentum beyond transportation and accommodation, the purpose of this pap...
The artisan sector is the second largest employer in the developing world and an estimated 34to-526 billion-dollar industry (Nest 2018). Why then are the majority of the world’s artisans living in poverty? And what role have designers played in extracting money and value from these marginalized communities? Co-authored by an economist and a design ...
Human Resource Management & Psychology| 2019 93 CHAPTER 9 GIG ECONOMY: THE RISE OF FREELANCERS & ITS IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCE (HR) Fadillah Ismail 1 , Adibah Abdul Kadir 2 , Nur Amalina Mohd Rosli 3 , Norasmiha Mohd Noor 4 1,2,3,4 Faculty of Technonlogy Management Business, University of Tun Hussien Onn Malaysia fadillah@uthm.edu.my 1 adib...
Crowdwork is a new class of work arrangement that involves compensated work organized through online labor platforms. Crowdwork platforms that focus on complex projects and require skillful, creative workers rely on winner-takes-all competition among multiple crowdworkers, where the likelihood of winning and getting paid is relatively small. Given ...
Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate health outcomes for workers subject to piece rate historically to better understand the implications of pay type in the modernday gig economy. While piece rate occurring in the 1980s and 1990s predates recent platform-based employment, it introduced and normalized patterns of economic precario...
This paper examines the identity processes, and routines of academic teams working within the intersection of a virtual and physical working environment within higher education with the aim of proposing an approach to designing a process that supports collaborative academic work. With cost-orientated moves to expanding online provision through emer...
This paper introduces the Fairwork Foundation, a research initiative that is also developing an intervention around the quality of work on digital labour platforms. Lacking the ability to collectively bargain, many of these workers have little ability to negotiate wages or working conditions with their employers who are often on the other side of t...
1 www.competitionpolicyinternational.com Competition Policy International, Inc. 2017© Copying, reprinting, or distributing this article is forbidden by anyone other than the publisher or author. CPI Antitrust Chronicle February 2017 THE EMERGING HIGH-COURT JURISPRUDENCE ON THE ANTITRUST ANALYSIS OF MULTISIDED PLATFORMS BY DAVID S. EVANS I. INTRODU...
Twenty years ago, Google became the first web search engine to help people find things on the Internet.Today, people use Google to help organize the infinite data found on the Internet and to find things such as logo designs, business copywriting, promotional videos, or even information on astrology. With the technological advancements of the past ...
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. ISSN 2397-8716 9 Self-employment in Wales: micro-business activity or the rise of the gig economy? Andrew Henley* and Mark Lang+ *Cardiff Business School, +Mark Lang Consulting h...
52 FORESIGHT AND STI GOVERNANCE Vol. 13 No 2 2019 Research Associate, Ina.Krause@tu-dresden.de Ina Krause Abstract This paper analyzes how the organization of work has changed since the 1990s including the emergence of digital forms of employment. Following the evolution of work over the course of the 20th century and the start of the 21st, this p...
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