Directing innovation through confrontation and democratisation: the case of platform cooperativism
Technological innovation can serve a multitude of conflicting and diverse interests, often reflecting prevailing worldviews and ideologies. This article focuses on the shaping of innovation directionality in the context of digital platform capitalism, which has emerged as a powerful innovation parad...
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| author | Alejandro Fortuny-Sicart Mario Pansera Javier Lloveras |
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| description | Technological innovation can serve a multitude of conflicting and diverse interests, often reflecting prevailing worldviews and ideologies. This article focuses on the shaping of innovation directionality in the context of digital platform capitalism, which has emerged as a powerful innovation paradigm. Simultaneously, digital platforms have sparked significant concerns regarding labour rights, economic inequalities, and injustices. We investigate the strategies of resistance, appropriation, and re-direction of digital platform technology in the case of CoopCycle, a food delivery riders’ platform cooperative. The case consists of a digital platform co-owned and governed by a federation of 70 rider cooperatives worldwide. The case study reveals that, under certain conditions, existing and well-established innovation pathways might be steered in different and more responsible directions through contestation and experimentation driven by social demands for equality, democracy and participation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9bd306677e3c4ab981f2ed543040747b2025-01-07T13:48:20ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Responsible Innovation2329-94602329-90372024-12-0111110.1080/23299460.2024.2414512Directing innovation through confrontation and democratisation: the case of platform cooperativismAlejandro Fortuny-Sicart0Mario Pansera1Javier Lloveras2Post-Growth Innovation Lab, Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra, SpainPost-Growth Innovation Lab, Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra, SpainPost-Growth Innovation Lab, Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra, SpainTechnological innovation can serve a multitude of conflicting and diverse interests, often reflecting prevailing worldviews and ideologies. This article focuses on the shaping of innovation directionality in the context of digital platform capitalism, which has emerged as a powerful innovation paradigm. Simultaneously, digital platforms have sparked significant concerns regarding labour rights, economic inequalities, and injustices. We investigate the strategies of resistance, appropriation, and re-direction of digital platform technology in the case of CoopCycle, a food delivery riders’ platform cooperative. The case consists of a digital platform co-owned and governed by a federation of 70 rider cooperatives worldwide. The case study reveals that, under certain conditions, existing and well-established innovation pathways might be steered in different and more responsible directions through contestation and experimentation driven by social demands for equality, democracy and participation.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2024.2414512Platform capitalismplatform cooperativismGig Economyresponsible innovationalternative organizationdigital platforms |
| spellingShingle | Alejandro Fortuny-Sicart Mario Pansera Javier Lloveras Directing innovation through confrontation and democratisation: the case of platform cooperativism Journal of Responsible Innovation Platform capitalism platform cooperativism Gig Economy responsible innovation alternative organization digital platforms |
| title | Directing innovation through confrontation and democratisation: the case of platform cooperativism |
| title_full | Directing innovation through confrontation and democratisation: the case of platform cooperativism |
| title_fullStr | Directing innovation through confrontation and democratisation: the case of platform cooperativism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Directing innovation through confrontation and democratisation: the case of platform cooperativism |
| title_short | Directing innovation through confrontation and democratisation: the case of platform cooperativism |
| title_sort | directing innovation through confrontation and democratisation the case of platform cooperativism |
| topic | Platform capitalism platform cooperativism Gig Economy responsible innovation alternative organization digital platforms |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23299460.2024.2414512 |
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