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21. Users’ motivations to participate in the sharing economy: Moving from profits toward sustainable development

    Created On: 29/04/2019 in Key Categories Education & Economic Development Research
    This study explores user’s various motivations to participate in the sharing economy

22. Service Startups and Creative Communities: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

    Created On: 29/04/2019 in Key Categories Citizenship Research
    How can new approaches to business change the game towards sustainability-focused models?

23. The Emergence of the Sharing Economy: Implications for Development

    Created On: 29/04/2019 in Key Categories Education & Economic Development Research
    This article provides an overview of the contribution of the sharing economy to development.

24. City-as-s-Platform: The Rise of Participatory Innovation Platforms in Finnish Cities

    Created On: 29/04/2019 in Key Categories Citizenship Case Studies
    This article discusses the idea of city as a platform

25. The Hague: A Sharing and A Circular City

    Created On: 25/04/2019 in Core activities - Open ALEX Seminars
    Brief summary of the Online Seminar hosted on the 18th of April 2019 about The Hague, and how it is slowly becoming a Sharing and Circular City.

26. The Health of Workers in the Global Gig Economy

    Created On: 25/04/2019 in Key Categories Education & Economic Development Research
    What is the reality for those working within the gig economy? All the benefits for the users might come at a high price behind closed doors.

27. Platform Technologies and Socio-Economic Development: The Case of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in Nigeria

    Created On: 24/04/2019 in Key Categories Technology & Data Research
    This paper analyses the state of ICTs in Nigeria and the contributions to the country’s socio-economic development

28. The Future of Work in the ‘Sharing Economy’. Market Efficiency and Equitable Opportunities or Unfair Precarisation

    Created On: 23/04/2019 in Key Categories Education & Economic Development Research
    This paper analyses digital labour markets where labour-intensive services are traded by matching requesters and providers.

29. The Sharing Economy and Consumer Protection Regulation: The Case for Policy Change.

    Created On: 23/04/2019 in Key Categories Education & Economic Development Research
    This paper discusses the central benefit of the sharing economy thus far: it has overcome market imperfections without recourse to regulatory bodies prone to capture by entrenched firms

30. Does the sharing economy increase inequality within the eighty percent?; Findings from a qualitative study of platform providers

    Created On: 23/04/2019 in Key Categories Education & Economic Development Research
    This paper presents evidence for increased income inequality among the bottom 80%

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