Platform cooperatives and the dilemmas of platform worker-member participation

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dc.contributor.authorMannan, Morshed
dc.contributor.authorPek, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-08T22:49:43Z
dc.date.available2024-03-08T22:49:43Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractDespite the surge of interest in platform cooperatives, we have a limited understanding of the dynamics of platform worker-member participation in these cooperatives. Drawing on interviews with 21 senior leaders and founders of platform worker cooperatives, we investigate the dynamics of platform worker-member participation, finding that these cooperatives experience some successes and many challenges. We then build theory about how four distinct features of platform worker cooperatives—the facilitation of multihoming, the physically untethered nature of work, the relatively high importance of scale as a strategic imperative, and the relatively low importance of initial platform worker-member investment—influence these participation dynamics. We find that the platform and worker cooperative organisational models are in tension with one another when brought together within a platform worker cooperative, leading to positive and negative effects on participation.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipSimon Pek's participation in this research is funded by the University of Victoria President's Chair (no grant number). Morshed Mannan's participation in this research is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant Agreement No. 865856).
dc.identifier.citationMannan, M., & Pek, S. (2023). Platform cooperatives and the dilemmas of platform worker‐member participation. New Technology, Work and Employment. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12273
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12273
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/16057
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNew Technology, Work and Employment
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectgig economy
dc.subjectmultihoming
dc.subjectparticipation
dc.subjectplatform cooperatives
dc.subjectplatform economy
dc.subjectplatform governance
dc.subjectplatform work
dc.subjectscale
dc.subjectworker cooperatives
dc.titlePlatform cooperatives and the dilemmas of platform worker-member participation
dc.typeArticle

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