A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Cultural Transition in the Sharing Economy: Introducing Platform Work With Activity Concepts
Authors: Laura Seppänen, Seppo Poutanen
Editors: Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen, Petri Rouvinen
Publishing place: New York and Oxon
Publication year: 2020
Book title : Digital Work and the Platform Economy: Understanding Tasks, Skills and Capabilities in the New Era
Series title: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
First page : 183
Last page: 202
ISBN: 978-1-138-60584-8
eISBN: 978-0-429-46792-9
Web address : https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429467929/chapters/10.4324/9780429467929-10
Are our existing theories and research approaches well equipped to grasp
new societal phenomena? Platform work, or platform organizing in
general, is a relatively new phenomenon which, despite overwhelming
literature, is still undertheorized due to its complexity, rapid
development, and ambiguous vocabulary. Platform work has raised mixed
opinions as offering great business potential for companies (Parker et
al., 2016) and improving workers’ chances for flexible income (Anderson
and Westberg, 2016), but also increasing uncertainty, risks, and even
gendered or racialized exploitation of workers (de Stefano, 2016; van
Doorn, 2017; Kenney et al., Chapter 1 in this book; Kovalainen et al.,
Chapter 2 in this book).
