...Ran Ai Purpose This paper examines how platformization co-opts the long-standing informal garment production sectors into a digitally managed outsourcing system through a case study of the leading international fast fashion platform Shein. Design/methodology/approach This research bridges...

...Ana Santamarina; Francisco Fernández-Trujillo Moares Purpose This paper examines how platform economies extract value from the exclusionary dimensions of migration regimes to drive accumulation. Through the lens of racial capitalism, we analyze how informality functions as a key mechanism...

... It is found that disposable income and satisfaction with leisure time have a significant positive relationship with employees' Subjective Well-Being. Likewise, the rate of critical occupancy conditions and informality rate have a significant negative relationship with Subjective Well-Being. The research...

...Olga Zvonareva; Arturs Holavins Purpose The distinction between formality and informality has been a topic central for many scholarly fields. Without rejecting the usefulness of this distinction, the authors argued that instead of analyzing an empirical situation in terms of what is formal...

...Sunanda Jha; Dinabandhu Bag © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The research is limited only to informal service enterprises located in Delhi, the national capital of India and the peripheral areas. By identifying...

...Turkhan Sadigov Contradictions between informal aspects of collective culture on the one hand, and technical demands of formal rational policymaking on the other, often point to essential character, quality of policy problems facing a society. In August 2014, the Government of Azerbaijan took...

...Huseyn Aliyev Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest that informal practices and institutions of post-Soviet countries differ from informality in other post-socialist regions and, therefore, proposes categorizing it as “post-Soviet informality” – a composite definition that extends...