The rapid rise, expansion, and growing asymmetric power of online platform firms towards other businesses, labor and even the state itself occurred in a context of minimal regulatory oversight. In many respects, because the existing legal system was handicapped in understanding and regulating...

The newly developed Leeds Index of Platform Labour Protest provides an overview of the developments in platform worker organisation and mobilisation on a global scale. Its findings so far reveal that:- The main cause globally for labour protest is pay, with considerable geographical variation...

Crowdfunding platforms offer project initiators the opportunity to acquire monetary resources from the Internet crowd and therefore have become a valuable alternative to traditional sources of funding. However, some processes on crowdfunding platforms cause undesirable external effects that...

This working paper for the project, Unskewing the Data Value Chain, scopes relevant policy issuesand questions pertaining to systemic inequities in the global data value chains and frames a multidomain research agenda for inquiry. The paper also informs and steers the project’s recentlyforged...

The emergence of digital technologies has significantly reduced the economic costs of data—search, storage, computation, transmission—and enabled new economic activities. Over the years, firms able to create a platform-based ecosystem have become a force of “creative destruction.”...