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  1. Fictions of Management
    Efficiency and Control in American Literature and Culture
    Contributor: Dorson, James (HerausgeberIn); Verlinden, Jasper J. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

    From the organization of private businesses and public services to the optimization of everyday life, management is a ubiquitous term today. Denoting efficiency and control, management has become a catchall term for successful living in neoliberal... more

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    From the organization of private businesses and public services to the optimization of everyday life, management is a ubiquitous term today. Denoting efficiency and control, management has become a catchall term for successful living in neoliberal times. The term is so ubiquitous that it often avoids scrutiny outside of business schools and organizational theory. As the essays collected in ‘Fictions of Management’ show, however, management has a history closely bound up with cultural practices. While the meaning of management has been critically negotiated in literature since the industrial revolution, management theory in turn draws on cultural resources for animating technical rationality with engaging stories and corporate visions. Tracing the relationship between management and fiction in the United States, where the mutual influence between the two has been the greatest and shaped management culture globally, the contributors to this volume provide a unique perspective on changing forms of management through the lens of American literature and culture.

     
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  2. Women in the gig economy
    paid work, care and flexibility in Kenya and South Africa
    Author: Hunt, Abigail; Samman, Emma; Tapfuma, Sherry; Mwaura, Grace; Omenya, Rhoda
    Published: November 2019
    Publisher:  ODI, London

    The gig economy is expanding globally, with exponential growth forecast in traditionally female-dominated sectors - notably on-demand household services including cooking, cleaning and care work. But little research to date has focused on gendered... more

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    The gig economy is expanding globally, with exponential growth forecast in traditionally female-dominated sectors - notably on-demand household services including cooking, cleaning and care work. But little research to date has focused on gendered experiences of gig work or on gig workers outside North America and Europe. This report presents findings from an in-depth study of women's engagement in the gig economy in Kenya and South Africa, two middle-income countries at the forefront of developments in digitally mediated work in sub-Saharan Africa. It aims to understand the impact of this engagement on workers' lives, considering the quality of work on offer and its implications for workers' management of paid work and unpaid care and domestic work. The report argues that policy-makers and platform companies should play a central role in ensuring high-quality work, including improving economic security, supporting unpaid work, giving workers more control over schedules, ensuring their safety, and basing policy and practice on worker preferences - which also requires fostering collective action.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Kim, Kay (MitwirkendeR); Stevano, Sara (MitwirkendeR); Roumer, Aida (MitwirkendeR)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/206754
    Series: Report / ODI
    Subjects: Gig Economy; Hausarbeit; Frauen; Arbeitszeitgestaltung; Kenia; Südafrika
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 92 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. Token-based platform finance
    Author: Cong, Lin William; Li, Ye; Wang, Neng
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business, [Columbus, Ohio]

    We develop a dynamic model of platform economy where tokens derive value by facilitating transactions among users and the platform conducts optimal token-supply policy. Token supply increases when new tokens are issued to finance platform growth and... more

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    We develop a dynamic model of platform economy where tokens derive value by facilitating transactions among users and the platform conducts optimal token-supply policy. Token supply increases when new tokens are issued to finance platform growth and to reward platform owners. Token supply decreases when the platform buys back tokens to boost the franchise value (seigniorage). Although token price is endogenously determined in a liquid market, the platform's financial constraint generates an endogenous token issuance cost that causes under-investment and conflicts of interest between insiders (owners) and outsiders (users). Blockchain technology improves efficiency by enabling commitment to predetermined rules of token supply that address the platform owners' time inconsistency and thereby mitigates under-investment

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Series: Working papers series / Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics ; WP 2019, 28
    Fisher College of Business Working Paper ; No. 2019-03-028
    Fisher College of Business working paper series ; WP 2019-03, 028
    Subjects: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Dynamic Corporate Financing; Gig Economy; Time Inconsistency; Token/Coin Offering; Optimal Token Supply
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 45 Seiten), Illustrationen
  4. The effects of self and temporary employment on mental health
    the role of the gig economy in the UK
    Author: Apouey, Bénédicte H.; Stabile, Mark
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  INSEAD, [Fontainebleau]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: Array ; 2019, 23
    Subjects: Mental health; Self-employment; Temporary jobs; Gig Economy
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 42 Seiten), Illustrationen