Agnes Akkerman and our team member Damion Bunders published their paper “Commitment issues? Analysing the effect of preference deviation and social embeddedness on member commitment to worker cooperatives in the gig economy” in Economic and Industrial Democracy. It’s open access and can be found here.
In een opinieartikel in de Volkskrant riepen Tine De Moor en Ton Duffhues (Rotterdam School of Management) lokale overheden op om in gesprek te gaan met actieve burgers die in hun eigen omgeving uitdagingen op het gebied van wonen, zorg, energie, voedsel en natuur aanpakken. Lees het hele artikel, inclusief de voorbeelden van Herenboerderij Wenumseveld, Austerlitz Zorgt en energiecoöperatie Sterk op Stroom op de website van De Volkskrant.
Are platform cooperatives feasible alternatives to investor-owned gig economy platforms, such as Uber and Deliveroo? In which sectors does the cooperative model work – and for which kind of gig workers is a platform co-op more challenging? Read the analysis by Damion Bunders, Martijn Arets, Koen Frenken and Tine De Moor, ‘The feasibility of platform cooperatives in the gig economy’, which is freely available here.