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Codagnone, C., Karatzogianni, A. and Matthews, J. (2018), "Index", Platform Economics: Rhetoric and Reality in the ‘Sharing Economy’ (Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 201-205. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-809-520181007

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INDEX

Note: Page nos. in bold refers to table and italics refers to figures

Advocate General (AG)

, 115–116

affiliation

, 21

aggregate welfare effects

, 106–107

Airbnb

, 25, 25n4, 26, 29, 31, 32, 36, 39, 44, 45, 51–53, 57–60, 63–70, 68n24, 135–139, 146, 153–154, 159, 165

algocracy

, 96

algorithm

, 96–97

algorithmic labour

, 125

algorithm management

, 168

Amazon Mechanical Turk

, 44

Application Programme Interface (API)

, 79

attention economy

, 129

audience-makers

, 23

automated workers control

, 95–97

autonomy

, 154

Barcelona-based crowdfunding platform

, 139–140

bartering, lending, renting, gifting and swapping

, 39

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

, 104

big data opportunity

, 167

BlaBlaCar

, 36, 58

boundaries

, 151–152

Bring-to-Market (BTM) cost

, 37–38, 63

business optimism and economic laissez faire

, 50

business-to-consumer (B2C)

, 41

car sharing vs. ride services

, 26–27, 27

centralisation vs. decentralisation

, 25–26

Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD)

, 85, 89–91

cognitive biases

, 71

collaborative consumption

, 39

collaborative economy

, 40, 46

Commission Eurobarometer

, 121

The Common Good: Ethics and Rights in Cybersecurity

, 132

competition law

, 71

competition law potential implications

, 160

Confederation of Danish Trade Unions

, 35

congestion

, 24

consumer protection

, 37

consumer welfare and distributional effects

, 62–65

control and cost trade-off

, 33, 33–34

conversation

, 136

co-operativism

, 144–148

corporate social responsibility (CSR)

, 127

CouchSurfing

, 29, 36, 51, 56, 67

counterparts

, 28

Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)

, 115

cross-border interest

, 127

cross-group externalities definition

, 21

Crowdflower

, 88–93, 156

crowdfunding platform

, 125

crowdsourcing platform

, 125

cultural capital

, 55n23

data and privacy

, 71, 160

data collection

, 132

debate

, 117–122

Delphi study

, 37–38n3

demand coordinators

, 23

digital activism scholarship

, 131

digital economy

, 124

digital labour markets

, 41, 73–76, 107–110, 128, 152–153

(*)

, 76–85

(*)

, 100–107

(*)

, 91

(*)

, 90–91

(*)

, 97, 98, 99, 99–100

(*)

, 111–122

(*)

, 85–87

(*)

, 87–90

(*)

, 91–97

digital labour organisation

, 131

digital platforms

, 17, 19–20, 24, 25, 27, 31, 41

digital political economy

, 129

digital sharing

, 48

digital transformation

, 162–163

discourse

, 154

discrimination

, 164

distributional and stratification effects

, 57–58

distributional effects

, 168

earnings

, 91–93

eBay

, 29

economic classification

, 41

economic crisis

, 37–38

economic literature

, 19, 76

economic theory

, 161

economies literature

, 131

efficiency, market

, 100–107

Elance-oDesk

, 88, 103

empirical evidence

, 39, 153, 164

empirical research

, 24–25

Employment and Social Affairs

, 35

employment status

, 91

encadrement

, 150

environmental impacts

, 60–61

equally inconclusive

, 154

ESRC project

, 132

EU agenda on collaborative economy

, 120

EU-level context and developments

, 119

EU-level flexibilisation of work

, 119–120

European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

, 35

European Central Bank

, 140

European Commission

, 40, 46, 68n24, 68n25, 97, 120–122

European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

, 162

European framework

, 127

European Parliament

, 46, 120–122

Europe, legal disputes

, 115–116

evidence

, 153–156, 164–165

ex ante

, 30, 59, 163

experimental regulation

, 117

experimenter as employer framework

, 102

ex post

, 163

fair and dignified support infrastructure (FDSI)

, 163–164

Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA)

, 111

fear of retaliation

, 29

Federal Trade Commission

, 26

Federal Trade Commission Relay Rides

, 42n9

Financial Times

, 58

first-order effects

, 60, 154

flexibility

, 113, 154–155

floating signifiers

, 40, 152

for-profit vs. non-profit

, 137

Foundations, Discourses and Limits of the Collaborative Economy: An Exploratory Research

, 132

Freecycle

, 36

Freelancers

, 80, 80n4

French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME)

, 61

Greek social movements

, 140

greenhouse gas (GHG) emission

, 60–61

growth

, 113

Harvard Business Review

, 52, 114

heterogeneity

, 24–25

heterosexual dating club

, 23

heuristic conceptual mapping

, 43, 43–44

Homo Oeconomicus

, 104

Human Intelligence Tasks (HIT)

, 79

hypercapitalism

, 124

identification (ID) checks

, 160

identification system

, 28

ideological production

, 123–126

(*)

, 134–139

(*)

, 139–144

(*)

, 139–144

(*)

, 126–131

(*)

, 131–134

(*)

, 144–148

iLabour index

, 127

illusions of engagement

, 129

information asymmetries

, 71

(*)

, 159–160

information asymmetry

, 94

Information Communication Technology (ICT)

, 108

inherently frictional markets

, 24–25

Instacart

, 113

integrated theoretical framework

, 126–131

intensional definition

, 17n1

intentional collusive behaviour

, 29

Internal Market Committee

, 120

International Monetary Fund

, 140

Internet

, 30, 157

job opportunities

, 163

labour-intensive services

, 83

labour issues

, 163–164

labour platforms

, 35–37

(*)

, 62–65

(*)

, 57–58

(*)

, 60–61

(*)

, 51–54

(*)

, 65–67

(*)

, 68–71

(*)

, 48–51

(*)

, 45–48

(*)

, 54–57

(*)

, 61–62

(*)

, 37–45

labour-specific issues

, 161–162

lack of evidence

, 161

legal disputes in Europe

, 115–116

liability and insurance

, 71, 159

liability insurance

, 164

liability rules

, 37

licencing and certification schemes

, 71, 160

litigation

, 111–114, 112

lobbying

, 51–54, 164–168, 165

long tail effects

, 104–105

Lyft

, 26–27, 95, 156

(*)

, 111–112

manual labour work

, 78

market efficiency

, 100–107

market frictions

, 101–103

market-makers

, 23

media accounts

, 85

medium-term research project

, 166

micro-entrepreneurs

, 58

micro-entrepreneurship

, 85

micro-tasking

, 78–79, 87–88

minimum wage

, 164

Mobile Crowd

, 89

mobile labour markets (MLMs)

, 75–77, 77, 154

(*)

, 107

(*)

, 83–85

(*)

, 82–83, 89–90

moral hazard

, 94

moral valence

, 94

motivations

, 90–91

MTurk

, 78–79, 87–95, 108, 156

multi-sided platforms (MSPs)

, 18–22, 22, 42

Munchery

, 113

MyClean

, 113

National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)

, 47

negative externalities

, 71, 159

neo-liberal co-optation

, 51

net aggregate effects

, 106–107

NFP-sharing and cooperation

, 39

no need for indirect network effect

, 21

non-profit organisations

, 137

non-standard work (NSW)

, 73–74, 97, 98, 99, 99–100, 109–110, 156

not-for-profit (NFP) platforms

, 40

Nuit Debout mobilisation

, 141

occupational safety and health risk

, 78

oDesk

, 25, 25n4, 80–81n4, 88, 100–103

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

, 45

on-demand labour trade

, 39

on-demand versus scheduled transactions

, 26–27

one-way indirect network effect

, 20

online crowdlabour markets

, 95

online exchange

, 28

online labour markets (OLMs)

, 75–77, 77, 86, 100–102, 105–107, 155, 167–168

(*)

, 78–79, 87–88

(*)

, 80–81, 88–89

Open Food Network

, 142–143, 147

operating systems

, 23

opportunity and access

, 113

ostensive definition

, 17n1

participants

, 131–134, 132–133

passenger assignment

, 96

pass-through

, 20n3

payment systems

, 23

peers-to-businesses (P2Bs)

, 41, 44

peer-to-peer (P2P) dimension

, 18, 41, 42, 44, 45, 48, 60, 62–65

peer-to-peer Internet platforms

, 40

person-to-person carsharing platform

, 26

pin money and flexers

, 154

platform capitalism

, 124–125

platform cooperativism

, 128–131

platformisation scholarship

, 131

platform labour

, 125

policy and regulation

, 68–71, 157–164

policy makers

, 162

political activation

, 152

price

, 25

pricing mechanism

, 25, 66

production cycle

, 125

product service systems

, 39

protection of privacy

, 164

public interest

, 52

public policy

, 134

public relations (PR)

, 127

PwC

, 46, 46n13

quality of object

, 28

ratings

, 65–67

(*)

, 27–31

redistribution markets

, 39

regulation and policy

, 68–71

Relay Rides

, 26, 26n7, 27, 44

reputational ratings

, 66

reputation rating

, 28

rhetorical and discourse analysis

, 48–51

rhetorical discourses

, 86

rhetorical themes

, 152–153

rhetoric and movement

, 51

robust evidence

, 161

Routine Biased Technical Change (RBTC)

, 78

science, role of

, 165, 165

security

, 113

self-contained project

, 78

self-defined sharing platforms

, 36

self-define practice

, 40

self-defining practices

, 152

self-regulation

, 65–67

sharing economy

, 31–34, 39–41, 45–48, 125, 127

(*)

, 22–27

(*)

, 17–18

(*)

, 27–31

(*)

, 18–22

sharing movement

, 152

short-research project

, 166

single market relevance

, 127

size determinants

, 23–24, 24

Skill Biased Technological Change (SBTC) hypothesis

, 108

social capital and motivation

, 54–55n22, 54–57

social interaction

, 29

social norms and values

, 163

social pessimism

, 50

social process

, 124

social protection

, 97, 98, 99, 99–100

(*)

, 164

social utopianism

, 49–50n15, 50, 152

society, impact on

, 128

socio-cultural trends

, 38

socio-demographic dimensions

, 97

socio-demographic profile

, 87–90

socio-demographic profiles

, 168

socio-economic drivers

, 39

socio-economic impacts

, 61–62

socio-economic status (SES)

, 107

socio-economic structure

, 125

software platforms

, 23

Spanish law

, 134

spectrum outlook

, 144–148

State and capital

, 125

superstar effects

, 104–105, 104–105n15

sustainability

, 55

TaskRabbit

, 24–25, 25n4, 26, 27, 36, 44, 66, 82–83, 82n5, 89, 92, 103, 107, 112, 154

taxation

, 70, 159

techno-optimism

, 140

1099 Economy Workforce Report

, 93

Time Banks

, 36, 36n2

trade-off

, 33, 33–34

transaction cost

, 22–23, 66

transferable sharing right (TSR) mechanism

, 158

TripAdvisor

, 29, 67

true and pseudo-sharing

, 39

trust and reputation systems

, 27–28, 27n8

trust transitivity

, 28

Turk

, 107–108

Turker Nation

, 94

Turkopticon

, 94

TV market

, 20

two-side markets (2SMs)

, 18–22, 22, 41, 42

two-way indirect network effect

, 20

typology mapping

, 17–18

Uber

, 25–27, 27, 32, 33, 36, 39, 44–45, 47, 52–54, 58–59, 65–70, 95, 96–97, 111, 153–154, 156, 165

(*)

, 111–114

(*)

, 96

(*)

, 134–139

Uber Pool

, 135

uncertainties

, 28

uncertainty

, 164–165

United States legal disputes

, 111–114, 112

Upwork

, 80–81, 80n4, 96

U-shaped job polarisation

, 78

verification system

, 28

virtual production network

, 127

wired labour

, 108

working conditions

, 91–97

work–life balance

, 154

World Economic Forum (WEF)

, 38n4

Zipcar

, 31, 41, 51, 56

Zombie capitalism

, 124