In the wake of e-commerce and its successful diffusion in most commercial activities, last-
mile distribution causes more and more trouble in urban areas all around the globe …

With the rapid development and popularization of mobile and wireless communication
technologies, ridesourcing companies have been able to leverage internet-based platforms …

On-demand service platforms are popular nowadays. Many platforms hire agents to serve
customers who are risk sensitive towards the waiting-time. In this paper, we apply the mean …

The gig economy has captured public and policy interest and is growing as an area of
academic inquiry, prompting debate about the future of work, labour regulation, and the …

Ride‐hailing platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DiDi have achieved explosive growth and
reshaped urban transportation. The theory and technologies behind these platforms have …

We explore spatial price discrimination in the context of a ride-sharing platform that serves a
network of locations. Riders are heterogeneous in terms of their destination preferences and …

The sharing economy, a term we use to refer to business models built around on-demand
access to products and services mediated by online platforms that match many small …

The “on-demand” economy is built upon company strategies of arbitrage between worker
autonomy and worker control. Using ethnographic and interview data, I show how these …

We consider an on-demand service platform using earning-sensitive independent providers
with heterogeneous reservation price (for work participation) to serve its time and price …

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent
service providers (agents). This paper examines how two defining features of an on-demand …