Digital Work and the Platform Economy: Understanding Tasks, Skills and Capabilities in the New Era

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Seppo Poutanen Anne Kovalainen

Digital Work and the Platform Economy

Understanding Tasks, Skills and Capabilities in the New Era

Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen, Petri Rouvinen

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Routledge
05 December 2019

Economics; Knowledge management; Information technology industries

Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

"""Uberization,"" ""digitalization,"" ""platform economy,"" ""gig economy,"" and ""sharing economy"" are some of the buzzwords that characterize the current intense discussions about the development of the economy and work around the world, among both experts and laypersons. Immense changes in the ways goods are manufactured, business is done, work tasks are performed, education is accomplished, and so on, are clearly underway. This also means that demand for careful, first-rate social scientific analyses of the phenomena in question is rapidly growing.

This edited volume gathers distinguished researchers from economics, business studies, organization studies, medicine, social psychology, occupational health, pedagogics, and sociology to put particular work in both public and private sectors and education in both academic and vocational settings at the focus of the emerging digitalized platform economy. The authors anchor their analyses and conceptual and theoretical work in distinctive empirical developments that are taking place in one of the leading countries of digitalization processes: Finland. Finnish case studies reflect general global developments and show their particular, context-related actualization in multiple ways. This double exposure enables the authors of this multi- and interdisciplinary volume to advance conceptualization and theorization of the key phenomena in digitalizing platform societies in novel, creative, and groundbreaking directions. This book will without doubt be of great value to academic researchers and students in the fields of economics, business studies, work studies, social sciences, education, technology, digitalization, platforms, occupational health, entrepreneurship, and professions."

Edited by: Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen, Petri Rouvinen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138605848
ISBN 10: 1138605840
Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 05 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Seppo Poutanen is Senior Research Fellow and Docent of Sociology at the University of Turku’s School of Economics, Finland. Anne Kovalainen is Professor at the University of Turku’s School of Economics, Finland. Petri Rouvinen is Senior Economist at Avance Attorneys Ltd.