Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 34 Issue 4

Expanding perspectives on gig work and gig workers

Kristine M. Kuhn, Tera L. Galloway

Gig-workers’ motivation: thinking beyond carrots and sticks

Nura Jabagi, Anne-Marie Croteau, Luc K. Audebrand, Josianne Marsan

High-quality employee motivation can contribute to an organization’s long-term success by supporting employees’ well-being and performance. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of…

Conceptualizing human resource management in the gig economy: Toward a platform ecosystem perspective

Jeroen Meijerink, Anne Keegan

Although it is transforming the meaning of employment for many people, little is known about the implications of the gig economy for human resource management (HRM) theory and…

Explaining the decline of tipping norms in the gig economy

Erik P. Duhaime, Zachary W. Woessner

Advances in information technology have enabled new ways of organizing work and led to a proliferation of what is known as the “gig economy.” While much attention has been paid to…

Platforms as entrepreneurial incubators? How online labor markets shape work identity

Francesca Bellesia, Elisa Mattarelli, Fabiola Bertolotti, Maurizio Sobrero

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the process of work identity construction unfolds for gig workers experiencing unstable working relationships in online labor markets…

“We’re not uber:” control, autonomy, and entrepreneurship in the gig economy

Alexandrea J. Ravenelle

Unlike the effect of management styles on employee attitudes, little is known about the effect of managerial assumptions on workers within the gig economy. The purpose of this…

Mechanical Turk and the gig economy: exploring differences between gig workers

Melissa G. Keith, Peter Harms, Louis Tay

The purpose of this paper is to provide an investigation of how different types of gig workers engage in the gig economy. Specifically, the authors distinguish between workers who…

Mattering in digital labor

Eliane Bucher, Christian Fieseler, Christoph Lutz

Online gig labor platforms bring together a global and fast-growing workforce to complete highly granular, remote and decontextualized tasks. While these environments might be…