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Platform Economics : Rhetoric and Reality in the Sharing Economy / Cristiano Codagnone, Athina Karatzogianni, Jacob Matthews

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Codagnone, Cristiano
Published
Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource
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Karatzogianni, Athina and Matthews, Jacob
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Contents
Intro -- Contents -- Lists of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Introduction -- A Rhetoric-Driven 'Negative Policy Bubble' -- Elective Affinity -- Interpretative Framework: Sharing Rhetorics and Evidence-Based Policy -- Sources and Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1: Platform Economics and the Sharing Economy: A Primer -- Introduction -- In Search of Two- and Multi-sidedness -- Classifications, Determinants of Size and Market Functioning -- Size Determinants -- Inherently Frictional Markets -- Centralisation Versus Decentralisation -- On-demand Versus Scheduled Transactions -- Ratings and Related Governance Issues -- Back to 'Sharing Platforms' -- Chapter 2: Rhetoric, Reality, Impacts and Regulation in Labour Intermediation Platforms -- Introduction -- Trajectory and Conceptual Issues -- How Big is the Sharing Economy? -- Rhetorical Discourses -- Lobbying as Framing: Harnessing Rhetoric and Evidence -- Box 1: Airbnb Self-reported Impacts. -- Box 2: Uber's Self-reported Impacts. -- Social Capital and Motivation -- Distributional and Stratification Effects -- Environmental and Socio-economic Impacts -- Environmental Impacts -- Socio-economic Impacts -- Consumer Welfare and Distributional Effects -- Ratings and Platforms Functioning: Self-regulation? -- From Legal Battles towards Regulation and Policy? -- Box 3: Conflicts, Bans and Court Cases. -- Chapter 3: Digital Labour Markets in a Broader Perspective -- Introduction -- Conceptualisation and Dimensional Relevance -- Box 4: Online Micro-tasking Ideal-typical Functioning. -- Box 5: Online Tasking, Ideal-typical Functioning. -- Rhetorics and Economic Hypotheses -- Descriptive Socio-economic Picture -- Socio-demographic Contours of Labour Providers -- Motivations -- Employment Status -- Working Conditions: Earnings and Other Aspects., New Evidence on Labour Providers in Context of NSW and Access to Social Protection -- Evidence on Broadly Defined Market Efficiency Hypotheses -- Matching Frictions, Market Inefficiencies and Biases -- Super Star or Long Tail Effects? -- Why Do Firms Hire from OLMs? -- Net Aggregate Effects -- Distributional Effects in MLMs -- Digital Labour Markets in a Broader Perspective -- Technological Trends: Digital Labour Markets and the Future of Work -- Not Simply Technology -- Non-standard Work and its Effects -- From Legal Battles towards Regulation and Policy? -- US Legal Disputes -- Legal Disputes in Europe -- The Debate -- EU-level Context and Developments. There have been various regulatory and policy developments in many of the EU28 countries that would be beyond the scope of this final paragraph to review. We conclude instead by drawing the contours on EU-level general f -- EU-level Flexibilisation of Work. NSW arrangements have been introduced and regulated widely at EU level with the three key directives for part-time (1997), fixed-term (1998) and temporary agency contracts (2008). As noted (Peers, 2013), the spirit of the -- The EU Agenda on Collaborative Economy. In June 2016, the European Commission presented a European agenda for collaborative economy, a non-binding act of soft law that aims at adapting and interpreting the existing regulation, reassuring rights and obliga -- European Parliament Resolutions. The European Parliament has been pushing to bring providers in digital labour markets more firmly into national social security systems amid concern that a changing labour market might leave them out from entitlements and -- Chapter 4: Ideological Production in Digital Intermediation Platforms -- Introduction -- Integrated Theoretical Framework for In-depth Qualitative Ideological Production Analysis., and Methodology: In-depth Interviews, Participant Observation, Secondary Document Analysis -- 'Sometimes It's Too Ideological': The Challenge of Collaborative Players to Steer the 'Conversation' -- Against, with and Beyond State and Capital: Commons Discourses, Multifarious and Paradoxical -- And in the Name of Platform Co-operativism: 'We're Interested in Exploring the Whole Spectrum of Options' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Conclusions and Research Agenda -- Introduction -- From Rhetoric to Conceptual Clarity and Evidence -- Evidence General -- Policy and Regulation: Debate and Open Issues -- Labour-specific Issues -- Our View on Labour Issues -- Lobbying as Rhetorical Framing: The Role of Evidence and a Research Agenda for the Future -- References -- Index.
Summary
Platform Economics tackles head on the rhetoric surrounding the so-called 'sharing economy' which has muddied public debate and has contributed to a lack of policy and regulatory intervention.
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ISBN
9781787438095 (electronic bk.)
1787438090 (electronic bk.)
9781787438101
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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