A bibliometric analysis and future research agenda for online labour platforms

Vukmirović, Valentina and Spasenić, Željko and Milosavljević, Miloš (2023) A bibliometric analysis and future research agenda for online labour platforms. Stanovništvo, 61 (2). pp. 183-207. ISSN 2217-3986

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Abstract

Online labour platforms (OLPs) are profit-oriented companies utilising technology to connect independent contractor workers with short-term service labour needs, offering a digital marketplace for posting tasks, receiving bids, and finalising agreements across various domains such as writing, design, programming, and digital marketing. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the concurrent body of knowledge on OLPs, explaining how the specificities of this emerging form of labour are researched from various academic standpoints. The study is based on a dataset of 358 papers on OLPs published from 2013 to August 2023. The main finding of the study is that scholarly interest in OLPs is steadily growing in the observed period. However, geographical dispersion of the scientific output is not in line with the actual level of utilisation of OLPs, and scholarly interest in OLPs spans across diverse disciplines, including industrial relations and labour, management, economics, sociology, law, and computer science. The results of this paper can help better understand the dynamics of scholarly publishing on OLPs and further leverage underexploited subtopics in this field.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: COBISS.ID=133673993
Uncontrolled Keywords: оnline labour platforms (OLPs), gig economy, bibliometric analysis, systematic literature review, VOSviewer
Research Department: Welfare Economics
Depositing User: Jelena Banovic
Date Deposited: 22 Dec 2023 10:24
Last Modified: 22 Dec 2023 10:24
URI: http://ebooks.ien.bg.ac.rs/id/eprint/1989

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