Taming platform power: Taking accountability into account in the management of platforms

HA Rahman, A Karunakaran… - Academy of Management …, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Research on multisided platforms has emphasized how platform owners accumulate
significant power over other platform actors, such as producers and customers, arguing for …

Data Probes as Boundary Objects for Technology Policy Design: Demystifying Technology for Policymakers and Aligning Stakeholder Objectives in Rideshare Gig …

A Zhang, R Rana, A Boltz, V Dubal… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Despite the evidence of harm that technology can inflict, commensurate policymaking to
hold tech platforms accountable still lags. This is pertinent to app-based gig workers, where …

Demystifying Technology for Policymaking: Exploring the Rideshare Context and Data Initiative Opportunities to Advance Tech Policymaking Efforts

A Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.03895, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the face of rapidly advancing technologies, evidence of harms they can exacerbate, and
insufficient policy to ensure accountability from tech companies, what are HCI opportunities …

Gig Working from the Perspective of FairWork Principles

K Farrell - Humanistic Management in the Gig Economy: Dignity …, 2024 - Springer
This chapter defines gig working and presents some background to its development.
Despite reports of exploitation of gig workers, this new way of working continues to grow …

[PDF][PDF] Worker welfare in the gig economy

J Fisher - Unpublished working paper, 2023 - jackwfisher.com
Many workers provide short-term services through intermediaries: gig work. Quantifying how
much individuals gain from these arrangements is difficult because gig work is often a …

[PDF][PDF] Workers' Preferences over Payment Schedules: Evidence from Ridesharing Drivers

T Scarelli - thiagoscarelli.github.io
A job is usually characterized as a combination of what people do and how much they are
paid, with little attention to the fact that work arrangements also define when people are paid …