The potential of ICT to generate ‘solidaristic’ practices among women home-based workers in Turkey

Törenli, Nurcan

doi:10.1111/j.1468-005x.2009.00238.x

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“…Törenli () looked at the internet's role in developing ‘solidaristic’ structures and practices among home‐based employees, and found no solidarity evidenced among them, consistent with earlier studies of online home‐based employees (e.g., Bryant, ). However, self‐employed, home‐based knowledge‐workers’ autonomous, self‐organized work‐structures and self‐regulating practices, allow for professional solidarity and networking to exist online.…”

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Virtual Mobility and the Lonely Cloud: Theorizing the Mobility‐Isolation Paradox for Self‐Employed Knowledge‐Workers in the Online Home‐Based Business Context

Daniel

Domenico

Nunan

2017

J Management Studies

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We advance both mobility and paradox theorizing by advocating the new concepts of 'mobility-isolation paradox' and 'paradoxical imagination'. These emerged from examining the nuanced, multifaceted conceptualizations of the mobility-isolation tensions facing home-based, self-employed, online knowledge-workers. We thereby enhance current conceptual understandings of mobility, isolation and paradox by analyzing knowledge-workers' interrelated, multidimensional experiences within restrictive homebased working contexts. We compare the dearth of research and theorizing about these autonomous online knowledge-workers with that available about other types of knowledgeworkers, such as online home-based employees, and the more physically/corporeally mobile self-employed. This research into an increasingly prevalent knowledge-worker genre addresses these knowledge gaps by analyzing home-based knowledge-workers' views, and tensions from paradoxical pressures to be corporeally mobile and less isolated. Despite enjoying career, mental and virtual mobility through internet-connectedness, they were found to seek face-to-face social and/or professional interactions, their isolation engendering loneliness, despite their solitude paradoxically often fostering creativity and innovation.

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Virtual Mobility and the Lonely Cloud: Theorizing the Mobility‐Isolation Paradox for Self‐Employed Knowledge‐Workers in the Online Home‐Based Business Context

Daniel

Domenico

Nunan

2017

J Management Studies

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“…In Kenya, Uganda, and India, farmers can call or text hotlines to ask for technical agricultural advice (Aker and Mbiti, 2010). Törenli (2010) also argues that ICT can be of benefit to the information poor if it is used to generate 'solidaristic' practices in order to combat labour exploitation by the subcontractors.…”

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Leveraging ICT Technologies in Closing the Gender Gap

Sicat¹,

Xu²,

Mehetaj³

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In recent decades, the growth of information and communications technologies (ICT) and the move toward the digitalization of trade and global value chains has been radically transforming the global trade scene, with important implications for women engaged in trade. In order to identify adequate measures to reduce gender disparities, this paper reviews and discusses evidence from the existing literature, as well as presents evidence from a number of new empirical analyses. It also introduces two new frameworks to analyze the gender dimensions of e-commerce. Digital technologies have the potential to empower women socially and economically by creating new employment and entrepreneurial opportunities, removing trade barriers for women, enhancing access to finance and information and optimizing their business processes. For example, e-commerce substantially lowers the barriers to entry for micro-, small-and medium sized enterprises by reducing the investment needed to launch and run a business. Digital solutions that remove the need for face-to-face interactions when trading can help reduce the difficulties women business owners face, such as mobility constraints, discrimination, and in some countries even violence. As workers, digital technologies may help women overcome time and mobility constraints by connecting women to work from different locations and in flexible hours through emails, instant messaging and tele-conferences. It will also benefit women as consumers by saving time, providing access to information, reducing transaction costs, or giving them more control over the purchasing process. Yet, technology is not the silver bullet in resolving all the gender gaps in trade. This is because women's access and use of ICTs and digital technologies tend to lag in contrast to men. The benefits of digital technologies hinges on well-designed and specifically targeted policies.

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“…Whilst there is a lively and growing stream of studies that consider international perspectives of home-based businesses (see Table 1), to date only one study (Törenli, 2010) explores the impact of international context on online home-based business, with a consideration of a rapidly developing country context. Interestingly she concludes that for many home-based entrepreneurs producing traditional products, the benefits of IT may lie in 'developing solidaristic structures rather than personal-individual success stories' (p.62).…”

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The Role of Entrepreneur-Venture Fit in Online Home-Based Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Literature Review

Anwar

Daniel

2016

J. Enterprising Culture

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The potential of ICT to generate ‘solidaristic’ practices among women home-based workers in Turkey

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

Virtual Mobility and the Lonely Cloud: Theorizing the Mobility‐Isolation Paradox for Self‐Employed Knowledge‐Workers in the Online Home‐Based Business Context

Virtual Mobility and the Lonely Cloud: Theorizing the Mobility‐Isolation Paradox for Self‐Employed Knowledge‐Workers in the Online Home‐Based Business Context

Leveraging ICT Technologies in Closing the Gender Gap

The Role of Entrepreneur-Venture Fit in Online Home-Based Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Literature Review

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