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Digital life", intended as the consequence of being connected to any device, anytime, anywhere and the "sharing economy" phenomenon are impacting and changing both business and individual activities. Mass collaboration is emerging through multiple new tools for people and companies, generating a clear advantage in terms of effectiveness, creativenes...
The fissuring of business structures fundamentally changes the nature of employment and work in industries and the economy as a whole. This article describes the core elements comprising fissuring, distinguishes them from the narrower concepts of contingent work and alternative work arrangements, and provides an estimate of its size. Work restructu...
Labour-management practices and workers’ experiences in the gig economy are topics of major interest for researchers, regulators and the general public. Platform companies project a vision of gig workers as autonomous freelancers, but pervasive features of their own labour practices, along with workers’ traits, create new vulnerabilities and risks....
10.2478_manment-2019-0025.indd 169 Management 2019 Vol. 23, No. 2 ISSN 1429-9321DOI: 10.2478/manment-2019-0025 Jacob Ongaki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Business Colorado, Mesa University, USA, ORCID: 0000-0002-3174-813X. JACOB ONGAKI An examination of the relationship between fl exible work arrangements, work-family confl ict, organizational co...
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Member-Owned Alternatives: Exploring Participatory Forms of Organising with Cooperatives 100 Member-Owned Alternatives: Exploring Participatory Forms of Organising with Cooperatives AIRI LAMPINEN, Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden MOIRA McGREGOR, Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Swede...
Information and communication technologies have long been predicted to make cities as hubs of economic organisation obsolete and spread economic opportunities to rural areas. However, the actual trend in the 21st century has been the opposite. Knowledge spillovers have fuelled urbanisation and pulled job-seekers into large cities, increasing the ga...
The Future of Employment Policy Possibilities for Public Discussion April 2015 Edited by Mark Amadeus Notturno Fellow of the Interactivity Foundation IF... Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License This material is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, ShareAlike International License (...
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 at play in policy and regulatory debates, and this view is contrasted with a traditional liberal democratic persp...
This chapter examines the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on work and workers. As AI-driven technologies are increasingly integrated into workplaces and labor processes, many have expressed worry about the widespread displacement of human workers. The chapter presents a more nuanced view of the common rhetoric that robots will take over peo...
Which Jobs Are Done from Home? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 13138 Lena Hensvik Thomas Le Barbanchon Roland Rathelot Which Jobs Are Done from Home? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey APRIL 2020 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research publ...
Providers use platforms in dissimilar ways. Some providers create new capacity and designate it for exclusively commercial use via platforms. For example, a provider buys a car that serves predominantly for driving paying passengers, converts a standard residential rental to a shortterm rental, or works full-time via a platform. Conversely, other p...
As subminimum wage is a prominent and problematic issue affecting the lives of many people with disabilities in United States, and as it is linked to discrimination, the aim of this study was to explore how prejudice impacts the use of special wage certificates and subminimum wage across the United States. Since in the United States employment disc...
This essay argues that, during the period following the financial crisis of 2007–8, several different trends, already visible in earlier periods, have converged to create a new pattern of work organisation, a pattern which is now approaching critical mass. Across all sectors of the economy, primary, secondary or tertiary, whether previously classif...
In the last few years, leading-edge research from information systems, strategic management, and economics have separately informed our understanding of platforms and infrastructures in the digital age. Our motivation for undertaking this special issue rests in the conviction that it is significant to discuss platforms and infrastructures concomitan...
Key international and Australasian bodies have reported research suggesting the accounting profession is one of the most vulnerable to disruption through automation and changed business models. But research discussed in this paper confirms that while component parts of an accounting ‘job’ will be replaced by technology, the capabilities required to...
The research administers an exploratory survey to local economic developers in the state of Kentucky to examine opinion regarding the creative class. We hypothesize that Kentucky officials, especially the ones from the rural areas of the state, will be skeptical of the creative class theory of economic development. However, analysis shows half of t...
In the era of the digital economy (ICT, Internet Objecta, Cloud, Big and Open Data, etc.), we observe important transformations linked to this digital revolution [1], including development of collaborative and participative platforms, the rise of inter-company, inter-organization and inter-network collaborations, as well as the development of shari...
This chapter focuses on the role of digital intermediaries in shaping technology, society, and economy under what Casilli and Posada call ‘the paradigm of the platform’. They trace the historical relationship between platforms, markets, and enterprises to demonstrate the role of algorithms in matching users, pieces of software, goods, and services,...
This paper provides an analysis of the discursive contradictions and narratives of labour within Hyr, a location-based freelance platform app that caters to the retail, hospitality, and restaurant sectors in Toronto and New York. The app provides companies with access to individuals with a variety of skills in these sectors and provides workers wit...
The purpose of this theoretical paper is to synthesize the current knowledge on the topic of telecommuter managerial approaches by cross-analyzing certain commonalities and differences among relevant literature and scholarly sources. This paper will explore key themes such as trust management, performance-based reviews, communication, boundary mana...
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