Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; Stanton, Christopher

doi:10.1287/mnsc.2013.1832

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“…Ghani et al [32] pointed out that the information provided by the matchers on the platform may be untrue, and therefore, it is necessary to add an identity authentication mechanism to the two-sided market. Nie et al [33] established a dynamic game model, considering the probability that the authentication mechanism misidentifies the credentials, and studied the optimal pricing strategy under a labor-sharing platform.…”

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Research on Green Supply Chain Formation and Government Subsidy Pricing Strategy Considering an Online Trading Platform

Gao,

Zhang,

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Low-carbon production is currently the development direction of enterprises. The government provides low-carbon subsidies to low-carbon manufacturing enterprises to promote the formation of a green supply chain. To better encourage the development of the green supply chain by determining government subsidies and platform authentication fees, this paper constructs a Stackelberg game model that consists of a supplier and a manufacturer, and solves the optimal decisions of each entity using the backward induction method. This study uses the matching method to analyze the payoff matrix for supply chain members when choosing between low-carbon and traditional production. After introducing the online trading platform, the impact of the platform on the profit of supply chain members is studied, considering whether the authentication service provided by the platform is completely accurate. The results show that (1) in the green supply chain, there is a relationship between the enterprises’ profit and the level of emissions reduction, which increases first and then decreases. (2) The online trading platform is conducive to achieving green supply chain coordination. The government can pay fewer subsidies to prompt the formation of a green supply chain and the optimal emissions reduction level of the enterprise is higher. (3) When the authentication mechanism of the platform is imperfect, the authentication fee of the platform and the subsidy coefficient of the government need to be set within a reasonable range to avoid the enterprise adopting traditional production pretending to be the low-carbon type. This study contributes to research on the green supply chain and provides insights into pricing strategies for governments and platforms.

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Research on Green Supply Chain Formation and Government Subsidy Pricing Strategy Considering an Online Trading Platform

Gao,

Zhang,

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…It has been observed that workers of a particular country prefer to work with task poster of specific country. [43][44][45] For instance, workers of India prefer to work with task poster of the United States and the Kingdom. 44 This metric assesses, Equatoin (9), how well a worker of one country (C w ) collaborates with a task poster of another country (C tp ).…”

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“…[43][44][45] For instance, workers of India prefer to work with task poster of the United States and the Kingdom. 44 This metric assesses, Equatoin (9), how well a worker of one country (C w ) collaborates with a task poster of another country (C tp ). It also captures the preference of a worker to work with the task poster of a country.…”

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T a s k P o s t e r_S i m false(t p_{c}, t p_{h} false) = m a x false(E D false(t p_{c}, t p_{h} false) false); \forall t p_{h} \in T P_{h}

Geographical match: Task poster's country plays an important role in task selection by a worker. It has been observed that workers of a particular country prefer to work with task poster of specific country 43‐45 . For instance, workers of India prefer to work with task poster of the United States and the United Kingdom 44 .…”

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CrowdAssist: A multidimensional decision support system for crowd workers

Kumar¹,

Bhatia

Dubey³

et al. 2021

J Software Evolu Process

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Lately, crowdsourcing has emerged as a viable option for getting work done by leveraging the collective intelligence of the crowd. With many tasks posted every day, the size of crowdsourcing platforms is growing exponentially. Hence, workers face an important challenge in selecting the right task. Despite the task filtering criteria available on the platform to select the right task, crowd workers find it difficult to choose the most relevant task and must glean through the filtered tasks to find the relevant tasks. In this paper, we propose a framework for recommending tasks to workers. The proposed framework evaluates the worker's fitment over the tasks based on the worker's preference, past tasks he/she has performed, and tasks done by similar workers. We also proposed an approach to estimate the right price for a crowdsourced task for a specific worker. We evaluated our approach on the datasets collected from popular crowdsourcing platforms. Our experimental results show that the recommendation made by our framework for task and price is significantly better as compared with the baseline approach.

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“…Research on the geography of online labour markets has so far focussed on the country level (Horton et al, 2017;Kässi & Lehdonvirta, 2018b), and on frictions affecting the international service trade on these platforms (Beerepoot & Lambregts, 2015;Ghani et al, 2014;Hong & Pavlou, 2014). Urban-rural differences in the use of online labour platforms remain poorly understood.…”

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ICTs and the urban-rural divide: can online labour platforms bridge the gap?

Braesemann

Lehdonvirta

Kässi

2020

Information, Communication & Society

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Information and communication technologies have long been predicted to spread economic opportunities to rural areas. However, the actual trend in the 21st century has been the opposite. Knowledge spillovers have fuelled urbanisation and pulled job-seekers into large cities, increasing the gap with rural areas. We argue that new assemblages of technologies and social practices, so-called 'online labour platforms', have recently started to counter this trend. By providing effective formal and informal mechanisms of enforcing cooperation, these platforms for projectbased remote knowledge work enable users to hire and find work across distance. In analysing data from a leading online labour platform in more than 3000 urban and rural counties in the United States, we find that rural workers made disproportionate use of the online labour market. Rural counties also supplied, on average, higher-skilled online work than urban areas did. However, many of the most remote regions of the country did not participate in the online labour market at all. Our findings highlight the potentials and limitations of such platforms for regional economic development.

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Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India

Cited by 73 publications

References 85 publications

Research on Green Supply Chain Formation and Government Subsidy Pricing Strategy Considering an Online Trading Platform

Research on Green Supply Chain Formation and Government Subsidy Pricing Strategy Considering an Online Trading Platform

CrowdAssist: A multidimensional decision support system for crowd workers

ICTs and the urban-rural divide: can online labour platforms bridge the gap?

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