This book documents the rise of freelancing and digital professions and argues about the central role held by reputation within this context, offering a comprehensive interpretation of the digital transformation of knowledge work. The book shows how digital technologies are not simply...

Immer mehr Menschen finden mithilfe des Internet zu einem selbstbestimmten Lebens- und Arbeitsstil. Die Autoren, selbst Inhaber einer erfolgreichen virtuellen Firma, sprechen von einer "digitalen Bohème", von Menschen, die unabhängig leben wollen, sich aber nicht als Einzelkämpfer verstehen,...

The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working on their own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with low returns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area of...