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New Forms of Creating Value: Platform-Enabled Gig Economy Today and in 2030

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Managing Work in the Digital Economy

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This chapter explains the origins and development of the so-called gig economy and it provides a typology for the platform-enabled gig economy, including all types of gig work reaching from location-independent microtasking towards location-bound and interaction-intensive knowledge work. In addition, the importance of the platform-enabled gig economy for households as well as for the labor market and the various industrial sectors is examined. Both the positive aspects and opportunities associated with the platform-enabled gig economy and its disadvantages and risks are presented in the form of short propositions. Finally, an outlook is ventured on the probable further development of the platform-enabled gig economy up to the year 2030.

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    Results from UK, Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden scaled up to EU-15.

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Hamann, T.K., Güldenberg, S. (2021). New Forms of Creating Value: Platform-Enabled Gig Economy Today and in 2030. In: Güldenberg, S., Ernst, E., North, K. (eds) Managing Work in the Digital Economy. Future of Business and Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65173-2_6

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