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Digital subsistence entrepreneurs in developed countries: Opportunities and limitations of peer-to-peer platforms

dc.contributor.authorDelacroix, Eva
dc.contributor.authorBenoît-Moreau, Florence
dc.contributor.authorParguel, Béatrice
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-03T13:51:27Z
dc.date.available2021-09-03T13:51:27Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://basepub.dauphine.psl.eu/handle/123456789/21729
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectmicro-entrepreneurship
dc.subjectdigital economy
dc.subject658,O32/33, L26,J01
dc.subject.ddc658en
dc.titleDigital subsistence entrepreneurs in developed countries: Opportunities and limitations of peer-to-peer platforms
dc.typeChapitre d'ouvrage
dc.description.abstractenThis chapter explores the potential of peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms to cope with poverty and unemployment in developed countries. On the one hand, the promoters of the P2P economy praise its ability to empower the precarious by offering self-employment opportunities. On the other hand, its detractors refer to it as the “gig economy” to highlight exploitation, poor social security benefits and no real efficacy as a solution to exclusion. Based on a literature review as well as on qualitative field data collected among low-income entrepreneurs, we investigate the benefits and limitations of P2P platforms in terms of helping deprived people cope with poverty. To reconcile opposing views about the potential of P2P platforms to digitally enable micro-entrepreneurs, the discussion section distinguishes between different types of P2P platforms (on-demand, sharing and buy-and-sell) and concludes that the latter, where entrepreneurs display more autonomy and innovativeness, deserves the attention of all actors engaged in poverty alleviation programs. We conclude with recommendations on how to improve the creation and survival of these ventures.
dc.relation.ispartoftitleDigital Entrepreneurship and the Sharing Economy
dc.relation.ispartofeditorVinogradov, Evgueni
dc.relation.ispartofeditorLeick, Birgit
dc.relation.ispartofeditorAssadi, Djamchid
dc.relation.ispartofpublnameRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofpublcityLondon
dc.relation.ispartofdate2021
dc.relation.ispartofurl10.4324/9781003036821
dc.subject.ddclabelGestion des entreprisesen
dc.relation.ispartofisbn9780367472405
dc.relation.forthcomingnonen
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dc.description.readershiprecherche
dc.description.audienceInternational
dc.date.updated2023-02-09T11:57:24Z
hal.identifierhal-03334271
hal.version1
dc.subject.classificationjelHALO - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth::O3 - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights::O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processesen
dc.subject.classificationjelHALL - Industrial Organization::L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior::L26 - Entrepreneurshipen
dc.subject.classificationjelHALJ - Labor and Demographic Economics::J0 - General::J01 - Labor Economics: Generalen
hal.date.transferred2021-09-03T13:51:32Z


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