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We examine the concept of personal knowledge management using data drawn from our studies of digital nomads. We make two contributions: an empirical and conceptual development of knowledge management as it relates to independent workers and an advancement of social informatics that builds on Gibson’s ecological perspective. Digital nomads provide a...
The last decades, many scholars highlighted the shadow economic activities, regarding their disadvantages (unemployment, impoverishment etc) and advantages (intensifies competition, flexibility in employment etc). During the financial crisis, informal activities rose in noisy way, which triggered the development of special definitions to describe a...
Understanding the Skill Provision in Gig Economy from a Network Perspective: A Case Study of Fiverr 132 Understanding the Skill Provision in Gig Economy from a Network Perspective: A Case Study of Fiverr KEMAN HUANG, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA JINHUI YAO, School of Electrical and Information Engineering,...
Additional Labors of the Entrepreneurial Self 218 Additional Labors of the Entrepreneurial Self *SEYRAM AVLE, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA *JULIE HUI, University of Michigan, USA SILVIA LINDTNER, University of Michigan, USA TAWANNA DILLAHUNT, University of Michigan, USA Workers are increasingly expected to take on the responsibility an...
Discrimination Without Discriminating? Learned Gender Inequality in the Labor Market and Gig Economy
untitled \\jciprod01\productn\C\CJP\28-3\CJP301.txt unknown Seq: 1 27-JUN-19 9:21 DISCRIMINATION WITHOUT DISCRIMINATING? LEARNED GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE LABOR MARKET AND GIG ECONOMY Arianne Renan Barzilay* The “sharing” economy, and in particular the exchange of labor and services within it, is generating wide-spread attention from scholars. It h...
Using the ABC Test to Classify Workers: End of the Platform-Based Business Model or Status Quo Ante?
In light of California’s recent adoption of the ABC employee/independent contractor classification test, this article provides a comprehensive analysis of the ABC test’s application in the platform-based (gig) economy. After first reviewing the current state of precarious work arrangements, particularly through gig work, and reviewing more traditio...
Entrepreneurship as Trust Full text available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/0300000088 Other titles in Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial Borrowing: Do Entrepreneurs Seek and Receive Enough Credit? Stuart Fraser ISBN: 978-1-68083-610-3 Disciplinary Perspectives on Innovation David B. Audretsch, Albert N. Link, Mike Wright ...
We witness rising tensions between online gig-economy platforms, tax agencies, regulators and labor unions. In this paper, we use the framework of institutional logics as an analytical lens and scheme to understand the fundamental institutional challenges prompted by the advent of the online gig economy. We view gig-economy platforms as corporation...
The Gig Economy and Information Infrastructure: The Case of the Digital Nomad Community See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320545776 The Gig Economy and Information Infrastructure: The Case of the Digital Nomad Community Article · October 2017 DOI: 10.1145/3134732 CITATIONS...
Data Deficits in Municipal Rideshare Collaborations Saint Louis University Law Journal Volume 63 Number 1 Law, Technology, and the Organization of Work (Fall 2018) Article 6 2018 Data Deficits in Municipal Rideshare Collaborations Deepa Das Acevedo University of Alabama School of Law, ddasacevedo@law.ua.edu Follow this and additional works at: htt...
Platform policy and regulation: towards a radical democratic turn Platform policy and regulation: towards a radical democratic turn LSE Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/102628/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Cammaerts, Bart and Mansell, Robin ORCID: 0000-0003-3950-3468 (2019) Platform policy and regulation: towards ...
There are few topics in contemporary labour law scholarship that have generated more literature than work in the so-called ‘platform economy’. To date, much work has focussed on the question of defining the personal scope of the employment relationship and on the problems of using existing classifications of employment status in the context of work...
This report explores three issues related to the growing phenomenon of Digital Labour Platforms: firstly, how to measure platform work as a form of employment incorporating elements such as regularity of provision, time allocated and income generated; on this basis, and drawing on a new dedicated survey (COLLEEM), the article quantifies and categor...
Abstract The advent of various types of contingent jobs complicates selection criteria for full-time employment. While previous studies analyzed the penalties associated with other forms of contingent work, the labor market consequences of freelancing have been overlooked. I argue that freelancing works have features of both “good” and ...
Designing Good Labour Market Institutions: How to Reconcile Flexibility, Productivity and Security? DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 12482 Werner Eichhorst Arne L. Kalleberg André Portela de Souza Jelle Visser Designing Good Labour Market Institutions: How to Reconcile Flexibility, Productivity and Security? JULY 2019 Any opinions expressed in t...
This is a version of a publication in Please cite the publication as follows: DOI: Copyright of the original publication: This is a parallel published version of an original publication. This version can differ from the original published article. published by Freelancing on digital work platforms – roles of virtual community trust and work engage...
The deepening of sovereign debt crisis has resulted into the increasing visibility of coworking spaces, hubs, and start-ups which have all proliferated in the Athenian downtown area. Due to poor job prospects, an on growing number of high-skilled young employees have been engaged into entrepreneurial activities. This paper offers vivid accounts of ...
The Role of Digital Communities in Organizing Gig Workers The Role of Digital Communities in Organizing Gig Workers MICHAEL DAVID MAFFIE* Using survey data from 450 ridehail drivers, this article examines how social networking sites (SNS) influence workers’ views on union instrumentality and unionization. This article finds that more frequent inte...
From a consumer protection perspective, this contribution analyses four contractual legal frames potentially applicable to the triangular contractual structure of online intermediary platforms. For each framework, criteria are derived, and it is discussed how and if these criteria are met in regards to intermediary platforms. The legal frameworks a...
The following research paper is intended to address the worker classification issue that has intensified due to the rise of the gig economy. After reviewing the current literature on the subject, it will be made clear that a change must be made to the binary classification system that is used in the United States, and to the methods used to categor...
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