On why Uber has not taken over the world

Fleming, P., Rhodes, C., Yu, K.-H.

Article

Economy and Society.

The platform economy as a working opportunity for older people: The case of the Hungarian carpooling company Oszkár

Berde, É., Tőkés, L.

Article in press

Journal of Enterprising Communities

Driving a career in Tehran: Experiences of female internet taxi drivers

Beigi, M., Nayyeri, S., Shirmohammadi, M.

Article

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Glimpses of resistance: Entrepreneurial subjectivity and freelance journalist work Norbäck, M. 2019 Organization

Norbäck, M.

Article in press

Organization

Challenging the Invisibility of Sex Work in Digital Labour Politics

Rand, H.M.

Article

Feminist Review

Profits Uber everything? The gig economy and the morality of category work

Cornelissen, J., Cholakova, M.

Article in press

Strategic Organization

Gender in the gig economy: Men and women using digital platforms to secure work in Australia

Churchill, B.Email Author, Craig, L.

Article

Journal of Sociology

Diversity and future of work: inequality abound or opportunities for all?

Ozkazanc-Pan, B.

Article in Press

Management Decision - School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

Sceptics or supporters? Consumers’ views of work in the gig economy

Healy J., Pekarek, A. & Vromen A.

Article

Part-time ride-sharing: Recognizing the context in which drivers ride-share and its impact on platform use

Ma, N.F., Hanrahan, B.V.

Article

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Making a “Pro”: ‘Professionalism’ after Platforms in Beauty-work

Raval, N., Pal, J.

Article

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Precarious labour in waiting: Internships in the Chinese Internet industries

Xia, B.

Article

Economic and Labour Relations Review

Precarious work and labor market segmentation:a comparative study on mainland China and Hong Kong

Li, J.

Article

Journal of Chinese Sociology

Precarious Work, Young Workers, and Union-Related Attitudes: Distrust of Employers, Workplace Collective Efficacy, and Union Efficacy

Fiorito, J., Gallagher, D.G., Russell, Z.A., Thompson, K.W.

Article

Labor Studies Journal

Safeguarding Public Interests in the Platform Economy

Frenken, K., van Waes, A., Pelzer, P., Smink, M., van Est, R.

Article

Policy and Internet

Platform economy and techno-regulation-Experimenting with reputation and nudge

Lettieri, N., Guarino, A., Malandrino, D., Zaccagnino, R.

Article

Future Internet

Gig Workers

Randolph, S.A.

Article

Workplace Health and Safety

Expanding perspectives on gig work and gig workers

Kuhn K.M., Galloway T.L.

Editorial

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Is the association between precarious employment and mental health mediated by economic difficulties in males? Results from two Italian studies

Ferrante, G., Fasanelli, F., Gigantesco, A., Ferracin, E., Contoli, B., Costa, G., Gargiulo, L., Marra, M., Masocco, M., Minardi, V., Violani, C., Zengarini, N., D'Errico, A., Ricceri, F.

Article

BMC Public Health

Precarious Work and its Complicit Network: Migrant Labour in Singapore

Chin, C.

Article

Journal of Contemporary Asia

Developing the maturity model for gig economy business processes

Gandhi, A., Budiardjo, E.K., Giri Sucahyo, Y.

Conference Paper

ISCAIE 2019 - 2019 IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics

On the last mile: Logistical urbanism and the transformation of labour

Altenried, M.

Article

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

The platform economy: Methodological issues and research perspectives [LA PLATFORM ECONOMY: ASPETTI METODOLOGICI E PROSPETTIVE DI RICERCA]

Pais, I.

Article

Polis (Italy)

The ambivalence of logistical connectivity: A co-research with Foodora Riders

Leonardi, D., Murgia, A., Briziarelli, M., Armano, E.

Review

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Uberizing the Legal Profession? Lawyer Autonomy and Status in the Digital Legal Market

Yao, Y.

Article

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Gigs, Side Hustles, Freelance: What Work Means in the Platform Economy City/ Blight or Remedy: Understanding Ridehailing’s Role in the Precarious “Gig Economy”/ Labour, Gender and Making Rent with Airbnb/ The Gentrification of ‘Sharing’: From Bandit Cab to Ride Share Tech/ The ‘Sharing Economy’? Precarious Labor in Neoliberal Cities/ Where Is Economic Development in the Platform City?/ Shared Economy: WeWork or We Work Together

Bates, L.K., Zwick, A., Spicer, Z., Kerzhner, T., Kim, A.J., Baber, A., Green, J.W., moulden, D.T.

Note

Planning Theory and Practice

Multiple team membership in software development gig work

Watson-Manheim, M.B., Ahuja, M.K.

Conference Paper

SIGMIS-CPR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Computers and People Research Conference

Understanding safety concerns and protection behaviors of rideshare drivers

Almoqbel, M.Y., Likhar, A.K., Wohn, D.Y.

Conference Paper

SIGMIS-CPR 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 Computers and People Research Conference

The Future of Work

Lindley S., Alavi H.S., Wang D., Raval N., Lindtner S.

Conference Paper

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Explaining the decline of tipping norms in the gig economy

Duhaime E.P., Woessner Z.W.

Article

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Explaining the decline of tipping norms in the gig economy

Duhaime, E.P., Woessner, Z.W.

Article

Journal of Managerial Psychology

“We’re not uber:” control, autonomy, and entrepreneurship in the gig economy

Ravenelle, A.J.

Article

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Work design in a digitized gig economy

Schroeder, A.N., Bricka, T.M., Whitaker, J.H.

Article

Human Resource Management Review 100692

Guda, H., Subramaniana, U.

Article

Management Science

Vari-Sound: A varifocal lens for sound

Memoli, G., Chisari, L., Eccles, J.P., (...), Drinkwater, B.W., Subramanian, S.

Conference paper

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings.

Navigating ride-sharing regulations: How regulations changed the ‘gig’ of ride-sharing for drivers in Taiwan

Chen, A., Yuan, C.-W., Ma, N.F., Hsu, C.-Y., Hanrahan, B.V.

Conference paper

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings.

Crowdworker economics in the gig economy

Jacques, J.T., Kristensson, P.O.

Conference paper

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings.

Mechanical Turk and the gig economy: exploring differences between gig workers

Keith, M.G., Harms, P., Tay, L.

Article

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Platforms as entrepreneurial incubators? How online labor markets shape work identity

Bellesia, F., Mattarelli, E., Bertolotti, F., Sobrero, M.

Article

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Getting Gig Workers to Do More by Doing Good: Field Experimental Evidence From Online Platform Labor Marketplaces

Burbano, V.C.

Article

Organization and Environment

Customer loyalty in the sharing economy platforms: How digital personal reputation and feedback systems facilitate interaction and trust between strangers

Jane Hollowell, C., Rowland, Z., Kliestik, T., Kliestikova, J., Dengov, V.V.

Article

Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics

Notes on the Meaning of Work: Labor, Work, and Action in the 21st Century

Fayard, A.-L.

Article

Journal of Management Inquiry

The limits of mutual aid_ Emerging forms of collectivity among app-based transport workers in Indonesia

Ford, M., Honan, V.

Article

Journal of Industrial Relations

Poverty in Transit: Uber, Taxi Coops, and the Struggle over Philadelphia's Transportation Economy

Borowiak, C.

Article

Antipode

Becoming an expert in driving for Uber: Uber driver/bloggers' performance of expertise and self-presentation on YouTube

Chan, N.K.

Article

New Media and Society

Platform-Capital's App-etite for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia

Veen, A., Barratt, T., Goods, C.

Article

Work, Employment and Society

Platform Capitalism: What's at Stake for Workers?

Vallas, S.P.

Note

New Labor Forum

Digitalisation and work: challenges from the platform-economy

Gramano, E.

Article

Contemporary Social Science

Transgressing between consumption and production: Materialistic outlook on the digital labour of prosumers

Mika, B.

Article in Press

Capital and Class

Too Good to Be True? A Comment on Hall and Krueger's Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber's Driver-Partners

Berg, J., Johnston, H.

Article

ILR Review

Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2018

Thornthwaite, L., Sheldon, P.

Article

Journal of Industrial Relations

Different directions or the same route? The varied identities of ride-share drivers

Emmanuel Josserand, Sarah Kaine

Article

Journal of Industrial Relations

Does driving as a form of “gig work” mitigate low-skilled job seekers’ negative long-term unemployment effects?

Li, L., Dillahunt, T.R., Rosenblat, T.

Article

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Gig platforms, tensions, alliances and ecosystems: An actor-network perspective

Kinder, E., Jarrahi, M.H., Sutherland, W.

Article

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Work Precarity and Gig Literacies in Online Freelancing

Sutherland, W. et al

Article

Work, Employment and Society

Gig Platforms, Tensions, Alliances and Ecosystems: An Actor-Network Perspective

Kinder, E., Jarrahi, M. & Sutherland, W.

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Work Precarity and Gig Literacies in Online Freelancing

Sutherland, W. et al.

Research Article

Work, Employment and Society.

The organisation and experience of work in the gig economy

Sarah Kaine & Emmanuel Josserand

Article

Journal of Industrial Relations

The organisation and experience of work in the gig economy

Sarah Kaine & Emmanuel Josserand

Article

Journal of Industrial Relations

Precarious labour in waiting: Internships in the Chinese Internet industries

Xia, B.

Article

Economic and Labour Relations Review

The health and safety risks for people who drive for work in the gig economy

Christie, N., Ward, H.

Article

Journal of Transport and Health

Is platform capitalism sustainable? Digital business models, on-demand labor, and economic growth

Culkin, B.

Article

Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics

Dual Job Holding and the Gig Economy: Allocation of Effort across Primary and Gig Jobs

Doucette, M.H., Bradford, W.D.

Article

Southern Economic Journal

Exploring an impact sourcing initiative for a community of people with disabilities: A capability analysis

Eskelund, K., Heeks, R., Nicholson, B.

Conference Paper

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Exploring People's Intention to Become Platform-based Gig Workers : An Empirical Qualitative Study

Gandhi, A., Hidayanto, A.N., Sucahyo, Y.G., Ruldeviyani, Y.

Conference Paper

2018 International Conference on Information Technology Systems and Innovation, ICITSI 2018 - Proceedings

Consumer Attitudes and Behaviors in the Technology-Driven Sharing Economy: Motivations for Participating in Collaborative Consumption

Graessley, S., Horak, J., Kovacova, M., Valaskova, K., Poliak, M.

Article

Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics

Algorithmic Management and Algorithmic Competencies: Understanding and Appropriating Algorithms in Gig Work

Jarrahi, M.H., Sutherland, W.

Conference Paper

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Making Decisions in Collaborative Consumption: Digital Trust and Reputation Systems in the Sharing Economy

Popescu, G.H., Cristian Ciurl?u, F.

Article

Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics

The Uncertain Status of Gig Work

Posner, B.

Article

MIT Sloan Management Review

Gig work business process improvement

Pustulka-Hunt, E., Telesko, R., Hanne, T.

Conference Paper

Proceedings - 6th International Symposium on Computational and Business Intelligence, ISCBI 2018

Gig Work and the Discourse of Autonomy: Fictitious Freedom in Japan's Digital Economy

Shibata, S.

Article

New Political Economy

The American Precariat: U.S. Capitalism in Comparative Perspective

Thelen, K.

Article

Perspectives on Politics

Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy

Wood, A.J., Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, V., Hjorth, I.

Article

Work, Employment and Society

Service Startups and Creative Communities: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Bofylatos, S., Telalbasic, I.

Article

Design Journal

Sharers and sellers: A multi-group examination of gig economy workers' perceptions

Gleim, M.R., Johnson, C.M., Lawson, S.J.

Article

Journal of Business Research

On the economic and social benefits of direct selling

Peterson, R.A., Crittenden, V.L., Albaum, G.

Article

Business Horizons

The psychological consequence of thinking about time in terms of money

DeVoe, S.E.

Review

Current Opinion in Psychology

Independent Workers: Growth Trends, Categories, and Employee Relations Implications in the Emerging Gig Economy

Poon, T.S.-C.

Article

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

Introduction to Independent Workers: Growth Trends, Categories, and Employee Relations Implications in the Emerging Gig Economy

Devinatz, V.G.

Editorial

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

Agony and Ecstasy in the Gig Economy: Cultivating Holding Environments for Precarious and Personalized Work Identities

Petriglieri, G., Ashford, S.J., Wrzesniewski, A.

Article

Administrative Science Quarterly

Autonomy at work in the gig economy: analysing work status, work content and working conditions of independent professionals

Pichault, F., McKeown, T.

Article

New Technology, Work and Employment

The status of workers and platforms in the sharing economy

Hagiu, A., Wright, J.

Article

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy

Towards a new web of rules: An international review of institutional experimentation to strengthen employment protections

Wright, C.F., Wood, A.J., Trevor, J., McLaughlin, C., Huang, W., Harney, B., Geelan, T., Colfer, B., Chang, C., Brown, W.

Article

Employee Relations

Theorising the gig economy and home-based service work

Flanagan, F.

Article

Journal of Industrial Relations

A Typology of Crowdwork Platforms

Howcroft, D., Bergvall-Kreborn, B.

Article

Work, Employment and Society

Requirements for platform-based startup survival: A qualitative exploratory study

Maulana, A., Sucahyo, Y.G., Ruldeviyani, Y., Gandhi, A.

Conference Paper

2018 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems, ICACSIS 2018

Surviving in the Gig Economy: Change of STEM Students' Perceptions on the Generic Skills for the Workplace

Mark, K.P., So, J.C.H., Chan, V.C.W., Luk, G.W.T., Ho, W.T.

Conference Paper

Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2018

India's "uberwallah": Profiling Uber drivers in the gig economy

Prabhat, S., Nanavati, S., Rangaswamy, N.

Conference Paper

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho: flexible labor contracts with real option characteristics

Byrne, J., Pecchenino, R.A.

Article

Business Economics

Vampires in the Technological Mist: The Sharing Economy, Employment and the Quest for Economic Justice and Fairness in a Digital Future

Goldkind, L., McNutt, J.G.

Article

Ethics and Social Welfare

Youth, enterprise and precarity: or, what is, and what is wrong with, the gig economy?

MacDonald, R., Giazitzoglu, A.

Article

Journal of Sociology

Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy

Wood, A.J., Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, V., Hjorth, I.

Article

Sociology

Digitalization and leap frogging strategy among the supply chain member: Facing GIG economy and why should logistics players care?

Rahman, N.A.A., Muda, J., Mohammad, M.F., Ahmad, M.F., Rahim, S.A., Fernando, M.-V.

Article

International Journal of Supply Chain Management

Collective relations in the gig economy

Vicente, M.

Review

E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies

Is your gig any good? Analysing job quality in the Australian platform-based food-delivery sector

Goods, C., Veen, A., Barratt, T.

Article

Journal of Industrial Relations

Gig-workers' motivation: thinking beyond carrots and sticks

Jabagi, N., Croteau, A.-M., Audebrand, L.K., Marsan, J.

Article

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Major court and tribunal decisions in Australia in 2018

Landau, I., Allen, D.

Review

Journal of Industrial Relations

Crowdwork platform governance toward organizational value creation

Shafiei Gol, E., Stein, M.-K., Avital, M.

Article in Press

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

The Taylor Review: understanding the gig economy, dependency and the complexities of control: Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, reviewed by Alex J. Wood

Wood, A.J.

Review

New Technology, Work and Employment

Customer value co-creation behavior in the online platform economy

Meilhan, D.

Article

Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics

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