Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization: Toward a critical agenda

H Trittin-Ulbrich, AG Scherer, I Munro… - Organization, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Digitalization has far-reaching implications for individuals, organizations, and society. While
extant management and organization studies mainly focus on the positive aspects of this …

'You can't pick up a phone and talk to someone': How algorithms function as biopower in the gig economy

M Walker, P Fleming, M Berti - Organization, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper asks why there is so little collective dissent and mobilised resistance in the gig
economy, especially when labour-based digital platforms are used. We suggest part of the …

Who is pulling the strings in the platform economy? Accounting for the dark and unexpected sides of algorithmic control

E Pignot - Organization, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper aims to address the dark side perspective on digital control and surveillance by
emphasizing the affective grip of ideological control, namely the process that silently …

The sharing economy: Social welfare in a technologically networked economy

M Baranowski - Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article attempts to descriptively characterize the impact of the sharing economy, using
Uber as an example, on the social welfare of those people working via the app. For this …

Alternativity as freedom: Exploring tactics of emergence in alternative forms of organizing

S Dahlman, E Mygind du Plessis, E Husted… - Human …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article proposes that being alternative is not a question of adhering to certain principles
or applying certain practices, but rather a question of freedom. It does so by exploring three …

Prefiguring alternatives through the articulation of post-and anti-capitalistic politics: An introduction to three additional papers and a reflection

P Zanoni - Organization, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this introduction to the second part of the special issue on alternative economies
published in Organization in 2017, I first briefly chart key fora where the debate has …

Digital urban nature: probing a void in the smart city discourse

T Moss, F Voigt, S Becker - City, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Within policy and research debates on the smart city, the urban environment has become an
arena of contestation. Claims that digitalisation will render the city more resource-efficient …

Big Data and the disillusioned employee: Inside the ethical Internet of Things

B Randolph-Seng, Y Atinc, S Bui, Z Malik - Technological Forecasting and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Past research and theory on a company's handling of big data has focused either on the
external stakeholder side or corporate ends for internal stakeholders. In this paper we …

How digital fantasy work induces organizational ideal reversal? Long-term conditioning and enactment of digital transformation fantasies at a large alternative bank …

M Hensmans - Organization, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Digitalization, that is, organizational renewal through new information and communication
technologies, has long been invested with a fantasmic logic of affording alternative …

Growing global in the sharing economy: Lessons from Uber and Airbnb

ST Anwar - Global Business and Organizational Excellence, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A study of the globally oriented expansion strategies of Uber and Airbnb offer business
leaders insight into dealing with the ups and downs of the sharing economy. Although both …