In search of an adequate European policy response to the platform economy

Fabo, Brian; Karanović, Jovana; Dukova, Katerina

doi:10.1177/1024258916688861

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“…We do not intend to address definitional questions here (for that, see Botsman, 2013;Fabo et al, 2017;Huws, 2015). Instead, following Kenney and Zysman (2016) we focus on platform mediated work, as this terminology has the advantage of emphasizing the role of platforms in shaping potentially new ways of organizing paid work (Berg, 2016;Donovan et al, 2016).…”

Section: The Contested Meaning Of Platform Workmentioning

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Work and Social Protection in the Platform Economy in Europe

Joyce¹,

Stuart²,

Forde³

et al. 2019

Advances in Industrial &Amp; Labor Relations

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The article presents emerging evidence on the development of the platform economy, paying particular attention to the motivations for entering platform work, the conditions of platform work and the extent of social protections afforded platform workers. Debate thus far has tended to be highly speculative and lacking in grounded empirical analysis, with policy-makers in particular actively looking to regulate platform work on the basis of its novelty as a form of employment within the wider context of the decline of the 'standard employment relationship'. The article explores such concerns through an analysis of European Union labor market data and a unique data-set of circa 1,200 online 'click workers' across four established platforms. A novel contribution of the analysis is to differentiate between those that only work on platforms (work-dependent platform workers) and those that do such work in addition to another job. The analysis suggests that work-dependent platform workers are more likely to be differentiated by their motivations for doing such work than their experiences of job quality or access to social protections. However, the relationship between platform working and levels of social protection is complex, notably in terms of combined level of social protection and the contractual arrangement of additional job holders. This leave us to conclude that policy initiatives designed to address gaps in social protections for platform workers would be more appropriately targeted towards problems of insecure work more broadly. Finally, a number of areas for future research are outlined.

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Section: The Contested Meaning Of Platform Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work and Social Protection in the Platform Economy in Europe

Joyce¹,

Stuart²,

Forde³

et al. 2019

Advances in Industrial &Amp; Labor Relations

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“…In terms of the geographical focus of sharing-economy research, current studies are dominated by developed economy experiences and perspectives Münzel et al, 2017;Fabo et al, 2017;Chan and Shaheen, 2012;Ma et al, 2017;Furuhata et al, 2013, Martin, 2016Gruszka, 2017;Humphery, 2017, Palgan 2017Mair and Reischauer, 2017). While publications on sharing-economy experiences in developing economies are emerging (Roxas, 2016;Widdows et al, 2017;Surie and Koduganti, 2016;Wahyuningtyas, 2016;Schechtner and Hanson, 2017a,b), few so far explicitly undertake a framing analysis.…”

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Framing the sharing economy: A media analysis of ridesharing platforms in Indonesia and the Philippines

Yuana

Sengers

Boon

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Few studies on ridesharing have so far been conducted in developing countries. To explore this, the present paper presents a frame analysis of news content on ridesharing platforms in Indonesia and the Philippines. We identify five distinct frames, perceiving ridesharing as a (1) commuter solution, (2) unregulated public transport service, (3) cooperative business, (4) non-conformity solution, and (5) informal livelihoods. We show how these frames emerge from a particular developing-economy context characterized by gridlock problems in densely populated cities, the utilization of "informal transport" as a gap-filler, and an emphasis on collectiveness. The paper furthermore argues that the identified frames shape different policy responses to ridesharing in Indonesia and the Philippines, which 1) address the absence of legal status; 2) ease traffic congestion. The paper concludes that these responses are driven primarily by commercial and legal concerns rather than sustainability concerns.

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“…Technological innovation becomes the trigger through which digital platforms begin to change the world of work as it was previously known (Donini, Forlivesi, Rota, & Tullini, 2017). To check on how far this revolutionary innovation will go, a theoretical body of still inconclusive studies and conflicting views is on its way (Fabo, Karanovic, & Dukova, 2017). Only as such revolutions continue can one assess whether trends will prove themselves as being a drive to "undermine labor laws and other regulations, transfer industry risk to the individual driver, and lower industry wage and labor standards" (Zwick, 2018, p. 687).…”

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Empowering and Resisting in a Sharing Economy: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Bó

Petrini

2019

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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Some can regard the sharing economy (SE) as a sustainable economy for allowing innovative (even disruptive) business opportunities and for encouraging new forms of consumption. There are, however, controversies about SE's role in being a commercially-oriented economy taking advantage of regulatory and market failures. Such ambiguous trajectories provide opportunities for research, and one of them brings attention to power's exercise to promote or influence change. This research, a single-case study of Uber, aims to understand the connections between framings to empower and to resist in a SE context. Three two-sided (empower and resist) perspectives -the economic system, the business market, and the sustainable-driven perspectives -and two strengthening actions -searching for legitimacy and fighting and calling for status quo -arise within the SE context analyzed. Empowering framings sounded more convincing compared to resisting ones, and resisting framings highlighted contradictions not expected from SE initiatives. Our findings suggest that SE does have the potential to stimulate a kind of nonreversible sustainable mindset, but this path choice is still unclear.

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In search of an adequate European policy response to the platform economy

Cited by 74 publications

References 12 publications

Work and Social Protection in the Platform Economy in Europe

Work and Social Protection in the Platform Economy in Europe

Framing the sharing economy: A media analysis of ridesharing platforms in Indonesia and the Philippines

Empowering and Resisting in a Sharing Economy: Two Sides of the Same Coin

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