Boundaryless careers in the gig economy: An oxymoron?

D Kost, C Fieseler, SI Wong - Human Resource Management …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Advocates of the boundaryless career perspective have relied to a great extent on the
assumption that actors take responsibility for their own career development and that they …

Algorithmic control and gig workers: a legitimacy perspective of Uber drivers

M Wiener, WA Cram, A Benlian - European Journal of Information …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Organisations increasingly rely on algorithms to exert automated managerial control over
workers, referred to as algorithmic control (AC). The use of AC is already commonplace with …

Gig-workers' motivation: thinking beyond carrots and sticks

N Jabagi, AM Croteau, LK Audebrand… - Journal of Managerial …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose High-quality employee motivation can contribute to an organization's long-term
success by supporting employees' well-being and performance. Nevertheless, there is a …

[PDF][PDF] An overview of European Platforms-Scope and Business Models

B Fabo, M Beblavy, Z Kilhoffer… - An overview of European …, 2017 - lirias.kuleuven.be
The platform economy has become an important consideration within the European
Commission's Digital Economy agenda. By map** the platform economy within the 28 …

Conceptualizing the gig economy and its regulatory problems

N Koutsimpogiorgos, J Van Slageren… - Policy & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of online platforms has been considered to be one of the most significant
economic changes of the last decade, with their emergence reflecting a longer trend of …

[HTML][HTML] “We don't need no (higher) education”-How the gig economy challenges the education-income paradigm

AM Herrmann, PM Zaal, MMH Chappin… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
The empirical relationship between educational attainment and pay levels has been widely
acknowledged in the labour-economic and labour-sociology literatures. While the …

The mobilisation of gig economy couriers in Italy: some lessons for the trade union movement

A Tassinari, V Maccarrone - 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In October 2016, in Turin, northern Italy, cycle couriers working for the German food delivery
company Foodora staged a series of public protests which quickly attracted considerable …

Crowdsourcing, sharing economies and development

A Taeihagh - Journal of Develo** Societies, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
What are the similarities and differences between crowdsourcing and sharing economy?
What factors influence their use in develo** countries? In light of recent developments in …

Together but alone: Atomization and peer support among gig workers

Z Yao, S Weden, L Emerlyn, H Zhu… - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The individualistic nature of gig work allows workers to have high levels of flexibility, but it
also leads to atomization, leaving them isolated from peer workers. In this paper, we …

The impact of the collaborative economy on the labour market

W De Groen, I Maselli - 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
The digitalisation of work is creating new ways of intermediating work, with for example
platforms intermediating work between individuals online. These so-called online …