The Digital Platform Economy Index: Country Rankings and Clustering

Why do labour platforms negotiate? Platform strategies in tax-based welfare states

Economic and Industrial Democracy ◽

10.1177/0143831x211056974 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0143831X2110569

Author(s):

Anna Ilsøe ◽

Trine Pernille Larsen

Keyword(s):

Collective Bargaining ◽

Case Studies ◽

Growth Rates ◽

Welfare States ◽

Digital Platform ◽

Customer Base ◽

Fresh Perspective ◽

Platform Economy

The regulatory setting and growing worker mobilization in the digital platform economy have recently attracted much political and academic attention. However, the perspective of platforms as employers and their role in regulating the online market are less researched. This article contributes with a fresh perspective on labour platforms as potential employers and their various strategies towards collective bargaining. Empirically, the article draws on in-depth case studies of three labour platforms operating in Denmark, but choosing very different strategies towards collective bargaining. The study identifies four factors impacting their choice of strategy: platform ownership, existing sector-level agreements, growth rates and customer base.

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Burning out in emotional capitalism: Appropriation of gangqing and renqing in the Chinese platform economy

Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1177/14407833211044568 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 144078332110445

Author(s):

Ling Tang

Keyword(s):

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Interpersonal Relationship ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

Shared Values ◽

Social Connections ◽

Digital Ethnography ◽

Digital Platform ◽

Platform Economy ◽

Seller Relationship

Based on a three-year digital ethnography as an educational consultant on the Chinese digital platform X, I use guanxi, enduring interpersonal relationships, to explain how people voluntarily work to the extent of burning out. Drawing on literature about emotion and work in precarious labour, and especially the discussion on emotional capitalism, I demonstrate that it is not because of the lack of social connections that people engage in auto-exploitation and burning out, as Han Byung-chul argues, but precisely because of shared values and the emotions people develop for each other that people commit more to work. Complementing research on digital economic tribes, I argue that guanxi could serve as an analytical framework to decipher the buyer–seller relationship on platforms. In particular, I use two guanxi-related concepts ganqing (emotional attachments) and renqing (norms of interpersonal relationship) to explain why I worked voluntarily and obligatorily for the students I met via X.

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The Digital Platform Economy

The Political Economy Reader ◽

10.4324/9781003047162-43 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 551-554

Author(s):

Naazneen H. Barma ◽

Steven K. Vogel

Keyword(s):

Digital Platform ◽

Platform Economy

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THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL PLATFORM ECONOMY FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF GDP, TAX POLICIES, FDI AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK IN EU COUNTRIES

10.31410/eman.s.p.2021.55 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Vito Bobek ◽

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Shuporna Ghosh ◽

Tatjana Horvat ◽

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Keyword(s):

Regulatory Framework ◽

Digital Data ◽

Asia Pacific ◽

Tax Policies ◽

The European Union ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Digital Platform ◽

Eu Countries ◽

Platform Economy ◽

The Eu

Digital data are core to all fast-emerging digital technologies, such as data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, and all internet-based services. The dominance of global digital platforms, their control of data, and their capacity to create and capture the ensuing value further accentuate concentration and consolidation rather than reduce inequalities between and within countries. This paper will analyze the digital platform economy in the European Union (EU) in the backdrop of the US and Asia Pacific digital platform economy and throw some light on critical factors for developing the conducive and globally competitive digital industry in the EU. This will be studied through some of the influences such as share of GDP, tax policies, FDI, and regulatory framework in the EU countries, contributing to creating a framework for a competitive global landscape of the EU.

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