Foreword: JMO special issue on self-employment/freelancing

Meager, Nigel

doi:10.1017/jmo.2016.42

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“…The selection of a case for this study focused on artistic creativity (cf. Alland, 1977;Hirschman, 1980;Midgley & Dowling, 1978) and the collaborations among self-employed individuals in the freelance economy (B ö genhold & Klinglmair, 2016; Damian & Manea, 2019;McKeown & Leighton, 2016;Meager, 2016). The limited existing research on the freelance economy motivated this focus, as did the historical association of freelancing with the creative sectors (DCMS, 1998).…”

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“…The freelance economy has come to characterize how skilled individuals remain self-employed (McKeown & Leighton, 2016;Meager, 2016;Scully-Russ & Torraco, 2020) while organizing themselves for shared output (B ö genhold & Klinglmair, 2016;Damian & Manea, 2019). In comparison to gig and sharing economies (Geissinger, Laurell, Öberg, & Sandstr ö m, 2018;Geissinger, Laurell, Öberg, Sandstr ö m, & Suseno, 2020), with which the freelance economy is often conflated (Klarin & Suseno, 2021), the skilled individuals expect not only to perform predefined tasks but to contribute new ideas.…”

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Does the freelance economy promote creative freedom?

Öberg

2024

Journal of Management & Organization

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This paper builds on the creation of new ways of organizing work, where the freelance economy specifically targets the increasing number of skilled self-employed individuals collaborating for shared output. Through describing and discussing creativity within the freelance economy, this paper seeks to understand creativity in collaborations among these self-employed individuals. Drawing from a case study conducted in the advertising sector, the paper concludes that creativity within the freelance economy occurs between equal and inherently creative freelancers rather than being the product of individual traits, despite their respective skills. Creativity between individuals arises when processes are appropriately formalized, while the creative output is constrained by individual decisions and styles. The paper contributes to existing research by shedding light on the distinctive characteristics of the freelance economy and its paradoxical organizational nature. By doing so, it offers insights that contrast with prior studies on artistic creativity.

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Does the freelance economy promote creative freedom?

Öberg

2024

Journal of Management & Organization

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“…First, patterns in the quantity of people engaged in self-employments are changing globally. While overall rates for self-employment across the world are declining, numbers of self-employed workers in the OECD countries are increasing (Meager 2016), suggesting something of a convergence between the majority and minority worlds, superficially at least. Even within the global 'North' divergence is occurring, as while in the mid-1980s U.S. and U.K, rates of formal self-employment were comparable, recent changes mean that today the U.S. self-employment rate is under half that of the U.K. (OECD, 2016).…”

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“…First, patterns in the number of people engaged in self-employments are changing globally. While overall rates of self-employment across the world are declining, the number of self-employed workers in the OECD countries is increasing (Meager, 2016), suggesting something of a convergence between the majority and the minority worlds, superficially at least. But, even within the global North there are divergent patterns.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Everyday Self-Employment

Cohen

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2018

American Behavioral Scientist

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. attracted policy concern across national, supranational and global scales, yet sociological thought has been somewhat slower to respond to this phenomenon. In response, this special issue focuses on everyday self-employment amongst workers drawn from countries across the world. The collection of articles in this volume originated, in part, from a recent symposium that took place at City, University of London, which highlighted the contribution of sociology and cognate disciplines to the study of self-employment. The volume considers the social and structural forces that condition this economic activity as an ideology and practice, as well as the constraints and opportunities for its maintenance and reproduction. Permanent repository linkIt also examines the everyday lives of self-employed workers and in particular the ways in which self-employment is experienced across a range of geographical, occupational, and industrial contexts, and with regard to social categories including race, class, nationality and gender. As neo-liberal subjects we are increasingly required to inhabit an entrepreneurial self. As such, a sociological understanding of the global patterns and everyday experiences of self-employment -or entrepreneurialism as practice -is essential for a critical understanding of the economy and society and the cultural legitimations associated with this oft-celebrated and aspirational economic activity. The contributors in this volume often challenge the mainstream view of self-employment and entrepreneurship to reveal the complexity and scope of activity; their perspectives provide new insights for researchers and policymakers regarding the function of self-employment in a changing economy and society. This introduction initiates a discussion of the central debates in the study of self-employment, introduces a working conceptualization of selfemployment, and presents a brief synopsis of the articles in this volume.

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“…(Re)producing Self-Employment Self-employment rates have increased across most Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries (Meager, 2016). In the United Kingdom, in the period since the financial crisis of 2008, rises in self-employment have far outpaced employment, with self-employment now accounting for about 15% of total employment.…”

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Spatio–Temporal Unboundedness: A Feature, Not a Bug, of Self-Employment

Cohen

2018

American Behavioral Scientist

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Citation: Cohen, R. L. ORCID: 0000-0003-4560-1590(2018. Spatio-temporal unboundedness: A feature, not a bug, of self-employment. American Behavioral Scientist, doi: 10.1177/0002764218794781 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent AbstractThis article considers whether unbounded times and spaces of work are systematically associated with self-employment. In contrast to analyses that frame the spatial and temporal location of work as signifying autonomy or freedom, it posits that self-employment is produced by, and then reproduces, constraints on and preferences about spatio-temporal organisation at both occupational and individual level. Using data from five years of the UK Labour Force Survey (2013-17) the article takes a novel approach in the quantitative analysis of self-employment by conducting intraoccupational analysis within each of four relatively homogenous occupational groups: hairdressers, shopkeepers, arts workers and accountants. Analysis shows that: 1) at population-level selfemployment is strongly associated with both spatial and temporal unboundedness; 2) these effects are stronger for women than men; 3) in intra-occupational analyses, gender, alongside other sociodemographic measures, is largely non-significant, suggesting that the relationship between these and self-employment is primarily produced by differences associated with occupational segregation; 4) the association between self-employment and different types of spatio-temporal unboundedness varies markedly by occupation. The article points to the importance of occupation and the spatiotemporal organisation of concrete work activity in understanding the reproduction of selfemployment. It concludes, therefore, that spatio-temporal unboundedness should be considered as a feature, or structural component, of self-employment, not a choice or by-product.

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Foreword: JMO special issue on self-employment/freelancing

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Does the freelance economy promote creative freedom?

Does the freelance economy promote creative freedom?

Introduction to the Special Issue: Everyday Self-Employment

Spatio–Temporal Unboundedness: A Feature, Not a Bug, of Self-Employment

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