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Table 1

Definitions of the term uberization in timeline

Authors	Characterization	Emphasis
Nurvala (2015, p. 231)	“The dramatic collapse of transaction costs provided by platforms is a determining factor for the development of Uberization”	Reduction of transaction costs
Fleming (2017, p. 702)	“Business models on demand, freelancer, and what some people call Uberization of the workforce, easily follow the idea that people are responsible for their economic fate”	Extension of work opportunities
Sharam and Bryant (2017, p. 203)	“Uberization or the application of the design of Internet-enabled bilateral correspondence markets, are an emerging disturbance… which can overcome long-standing market failures in the supply of products and the productive densification of our cities”	Overcoming market failures
Ticona and Mateescu (2018, p. 01)	“On-demand labor platforms offer a lot of in-person services, from rides to daycare. However, scholars have focused on free rides, leading to a model of ‘Uberization’ that implies work informalization”	Work informalization
Firmino et al. (2019, p. 206)	“Uberization is characterized, among other things, by the precarization of labor relations, since companies present themselves only as technology providers for brokerage services, and do not accept any responsibility for their users-partners as employees”	Precarization of work relations
Antunes and Filgueiras (2020, p. 32)	“Ways of working that expand on digital platforms, whose the traces of concreteness are the expression of exploration of more value and also labor spoliation, by transferring the costs to their workers, who become directly dependent on financing their expenses, which are indispensable for the performance of their labor”	Disguised form of service provision based on the worker's exploration and spoliation
Abílio (2020, p. 111)	“Uberization is a new form of control, management, and organization of work, largely related to work mediated by digital platforms, but not restricted to them”	New form of management and organization of work relations

Authors	Characterization	Emphasis
Nurvala (2015, p. 231)	“The dramatic collapse of transaction costs provided by platforms is a determining factor for the development of Uberization”	Reduction of transaction costs
Fleming (2017, p. 702)	“Business models on demand, freelancer, and what some people call Uberization of the workforce, easily follow the idea that people are responsible for their economic fate”	Extension of work opportunities
Sharam and Bryant (2017, p. 203)	“Uberization or the application of the design of Internet-enabled bilateral correspondence markets, are an emerging disturbance… which can overcome long-standing market failures in the supply of products and the productive densification of our cities”	Overcoming market failures
Ticona and Mateescu (2018, p. 01)	“On-demand labor platforms offer a lot of in-person services, from rides to daycare. However, scholars have focused on free rides, leading to a model of ‘Uberization’ that implies work informalization”	Work informalization
Firmino et al. (2019, p. 206)	“Uberization is characterized, among other things, by the precarization of labor relations, since companies present themselves only as technology providers for brokerage services, and do not accept any responsibility for their users-partners as employees”	Precarization of work relations
Antunes and Filgueiras (2020, p. 32)	“Ways of working that expand on digital platforms, whose the traces of concreteness are the expression of exploration of more value and also labor spoliation, by transferring the costs to their workers, who become directly dependent on financing their expenses, which are indispensable for the performance of their labor”	Disguised form of service provision based on the worker's exploration and spoliation
Abílio (2020, p. 111)	“Uberization is a new form of control, management, and organization of work, largely related to work mediated by digital platforms, but not restricted to them”	New form of management and organization of work relations