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Big Tech, the Platform Economy and the European Digital Markets

Brühl, Volker - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 5, pp. 274-282

Digital platforms have become an important part of the digital economy by facilitatingtransactions between large numbers of users and by fostering innovation on collaborativeplatforms. It is striking that platform-based services are dominated by a small number ofglobal players. Most of them are...

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Vertrauensbasierte Organisationen als Grundlage von erfolgreichen digitalen Plattformen für personennahe Dienstleistungen

Schultz, Carsten; Hoffmann, Stefan; Ferdinand, Manuela - In: HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 57 (2020) 4, pp. 783-798

Immer mehr Unternehmen entschließen sich dazu, ihr Geschäftsmodell digital auszuweiten. Dieser Trend ist auch im Bereich der personennahen Dienstleistungen spürbar. Um Zugriff auf die digitalen Serviceangebote zu erhalten, müssen potentielle Nutzer persönliche Daten preisgeben. In vielen...

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Regulating the working conditions of platform work: What can we learn from EU member states?

Guinea, Oscar; Sisto, Elena; du Roy, Oscar - 2024

This Policy Brief offers a comprehensive evaluation and comparison of the regulatory frameworks governing platform work in four European countries. The comparative analysis draws upon research conducted by the OECD and the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the principles of good regulation. Adapting...

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The platform economy and social law: Key issues in comparative perspective

Daugareilh, Isabelle (contributor); … - 2019

This Working Paper brings together two parallel but complementary approaches to the impact of the platform economy on working conditions and social law. The first part of the study shows that the business models of some platforms is a combination of technological disruption and social evasion....

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Exposure to psychosocial risk factors in the gig economy: A systematic review

Bérastégui, Pierre - 2021

The 'gig economy' refers to a market system in which companies or individual requesters hire workers to perform short assignments. These transactions are mediated through online labour platforms, either outsourcing work to a geographically dispersed crowd or allocating work to individuals in a...

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The EU's digital markets act: Regulatory reform, relapse or reversal?

Boscheck, Ralf - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 3, pp. 154-159

As of 7 March 2024, the EU Commission began to enforce its controversial Digital Markets Act (DMA). This article sheds light on the recent debate. It lists the dos and don'ts of the DMA as well as stakeholder reactions to them before tracing some of the underlying motivations and reasoning that...

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Breaking the news? Should digital platforms be required to fund news publishers?

Lesh, Matthew - 2023

The internet has challenged the traditional news publisher business model by increasing competition for audiences and advertising revenue. Publishers have responded by seeking revenue transfers from the large, profitable digital platforms including Google and Meta's Facebook. But the loser in an...

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Positional Power in Hierarchies

van den Brink, René; Steffen, Frank - 2007

the decision-making mechanisms make all use of adaptations of well-established approaches for the analysis of power in non … ascribe positional power to actors in sequential decision making mechanisms. …Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in …

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Axiomatizations of a Positional Power Score and Measure for Hierarchies

van den Brink, René; Steffen, Frank - 2008

positional power to actors in sequential decision making mechanisms. In this paper we provide axiomatizations of this power score … and power measure for one of the most studied decision models, namely that of binary voting. …Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on …

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Towards a phronetic approach to pro-environmental behaviour: Seeking context, interaction and power in behaviour change processes

Hargreaves, Tom - 2010

This paper outlines and attempts to develop an original and innovative approach to research on pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) by, for the first time, applying Flyvbjerg´s (2001) call for the development of phronetic social science to this burgeoning empirical subject. Based on this novel...

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