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Digital Platform Continuance During the Great Resignation: Evidence from Knowledge Workers in Europe and Africa
As countries emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic, management teams faced the challenges of supporting their employees to return to the traditional...
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Coworking spaces for remote workers: an inclusive solution? Advantages and challenges from affiliated workers’ perspectives
Some companies are considering offering their affiliated workers external coworking spaces as an option to achieve both flexibility and inclusion,...
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Platform Startups: Foundation
Platform startups are not about what they do, but what they enable. This is because being a platform means getting complementary users together,...
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Abandon Hope All Ye Who (Press) Enter Here. Collective Rights of Platform Workers: An Illusion or Hope?
The purpose of this discussion chapter is to outline the problems faced by collective labour law in face of new forms of work organization such as...
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Content Creators Between Platform Control and User Autonomy
Content creators generate and upload content on social media platforms. If these platforms have a revenue-sharing policy, content creators earn...
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Algorithmic Control: A Disruption to Motivation of Gig Workers? A Critical Review
Organizations rely on algorithms to exercise mechanized control over workers – referred to as algorithmic control (AC). The use of algorithmic...
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Addressing shortage of skilled technical workers in the USA: A glimpse for training service providers
Skilled technical workers are needed to make any country highly competitive and more productive globally. However, there are reports that the supply...
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Digitalization platform for data-driven quality management in multi-stage manufacturing systems
Digital transformation is driving the current technological trends in manufacturing. An integral constituent is a communication between machines,...
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Emerging Voice Mechanisms in Asian Gig Economies: Implications for Gig Workers’ Work and Life
With the gig economy increasingly becoming an important source of income for workers in Asia, this chapter explores the different mechanisms used by...
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Research on the Influencing Factors of the Transformation of Migrant Workers into Industrial Workers in China’s Construction Industry
With the modernization, transformation and upgrading of China’s construction industry, the transformation of migrant workers into industrial workers...
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Digital Platform Start-ups
This chapter makes the case that “going digital” is an undeniable reality for businesses, governments, and consumers alike, and it summarizes the...
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Platform-level consequences of performance-based commission for service providers: Evidence from ridesharing
Ridesharing platforms compensate drivers using a fixed commission system that does not systematically reward effective drivers, which reduces...
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New Challenges for the Collective Representation of Platform Workers in Russia and China
The paper compares the situation of platform workers engaged in ride-hailing and food delivery service in Russia and China. These countries share...
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Precarious Workers’ Wellbeing: Identity Development Through Online Discourses of Quiet Quitting
Workers’ identities are constructed for a significant part around their social positioning at work. However, the identity construction of workers has...
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Engaging and motivating crowd-workers in gamified crowdsourcing mobile apps in the context of logistics and sustainable supply chain management
This study attempts to explore the factors that engage (behavioural factors) and motivate (psychological factors) crowd-workers in the gamified...
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Exploring the digital innovation process and outcome in retail platform ecosystems: disruptive transformation or incremental change
Digital innovation has revolutionized organizational processes and outcomes in several industries. Previous studies emphasize the transformational...
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Enhancing Cancer Care Services with the Multidomain Metaverse Cancer Care Digital Platform
Dr. Meta is a metaverse technology-based digital platform for cancer care developed to educate health professionals and provide good-quality...
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Building digital platform ecosystems through standardization: an institutional work approach
In this paper, we investigate the development of standards for technologies and work practices in a digital platform ecosystem. Standards are needed...
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Employer or Owner? The Character of Platform Work
The rapid growth of technology naturally brings the development and transformation of social relationships. The application of this new technology,...
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A Service Ecosystem Perspective on Building a Cultural Tourism Co-creation Platform
The aim of the paper is to provide practical insights into a cultural tourism co-creation platform for building a service platform ecosystem from...