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Community building on crowdwork platforms: Autonomy and control of online workers?
Gerber, Christine - In: Competition & Change 25 (2021) 2, pp. 190-211
Crowdwork is commonly described as an extremely isolating and anonymous form of work. Contrary to this, the article examines platforms’ managerial strategies to engineer so-called crowd communities. The results show that platforms assume either more controlled or lose strategies, which results...
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Autonomy and control in mass remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from a cross-professional and cross-national analysis
Fana, Marta; Massimo, Francesco Sabato; Moro, Angelo - 2021
the growing contributions on telework focused on the estimation of employment which can work remotely, while less or any … forms of control including standardisation and teamwork dimensions across different occupations and economic sectors. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692753
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Brave New Digital Work? New Forms of Performance Control in Crowdwork
Gerber, Christine; Krzywdzinski, Martin - In: Work and Labor in the Digital Age, (pp. 121-143). 2019
. This chapter examines how crowdwork platforms ensure their virtual workforce’s commitment and control its performance … analysis of the platforms’ homepages and community spaces. The chapter shows that performance control on crowd platforms relies … on a combination of direct control, reputation systems, and community building, which have until now been studied in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427928
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The close supervision of further education lecturers : "you have been weighed, measured and found wanting"
Mather, Kim; Seifert, Roger - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 28 (2014) 1, pp. 95-111
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260148
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Organizations and their consumers : bridging work and consumption
Gabriel, Yiannis; Korczynski, Marek; Rieder, Kerstin - In: Organization : the critical journal of organization, … 22 (2015) 5, pp. 629-643
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488121
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Consensual control through the articulation of technology and local culture : evidence from a textile factory in Turkey
Bespinar, Fatma Umut; Topal, Cagatay; Kalaycioglu, Sibel - In: New technology, work and employment 29 (2014) 3, pp. 224-236
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459189
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Autonomy and control in mass remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic : evidence from a cross-professional and cross-national analysis
Fana, Marta; Massimo, Francesco Sabato; Moro, Angelo - 2021
the growing contributions on telework focused on the estimation of employment which can work remotely, while less or any … forms of control including standardisation and teamwork dimensions across different occupations and economic sectors. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625626
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Community building on crowdwork platforms : autonomy and control of online workers?
Gerber, Christine - In: Competition & change : the journal of global business … 25 (2021) 2, pp. 190-211
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494166
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Controlling routine front line service workers : an Australian retail supermarket case
Price, Robin - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 30 (2016) 6, pp. 915-931
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694907
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Competition for control over the labour process as a driver of relocation of activities to a shared services centre
Mezihorak, Petr - In: Human relations 71 (2018) 6, pp. 822-844
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