Problem definition: The success of a gig platform is crucially driven by its ability to retain service providers. However, gig workers are independent contractors whose working schedules are not fully controlled by the platform. To overcome this challenge, gig platforms have commonly relied on...

Practitioners and academics alike have argued that a firm's interest in its short-term capital market valuation (short-termism) is harmful to the firm's long-term profit. Their argument is intuitive -- when a firm exhibits short-termism, its decision making will cater to the short-term at the...