Tag: Lyft
Why Apple, Disney, IKEA and hundreds of other Western companies are...
Douglas Schuler, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University and Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, University of Mannheim
Many companies...
California voters decide Uber and Lyft drivers are ‘contractors’ as gig...
Juliet B. Schor, Boston College
Uber, TaskRabbit and other ride-hailing and delivery service companies in California can keep classifying their workers as independent contractors rather...
How Uber and other digital platforms could trick us using behavioral...
Abbey Stemler, Indiana University; Joshua E. Perry, Indiana University, and Todd Haugh, Indiana University
Uber’s business model is incredibly simple: It’s a platform that facilitates...
How ride-hailing could improve public transportation instead of undercutting it
Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis; Austin Brown, University of California, Davis, and Mollie D'Agostino, University of California, Davis
Over the last half-decade, public transit...
End of the gig economy? Don’t read too much into a...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
A recent California Supreme Court ruling is being hailed as a “game changer” for the gig economy.
That’s...
Uber gets a backseat driver as Kalanick exits top job
John Colley, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
As the ride-hailing company Uber lurched from one clumsy mess to the next, it had appeared that...
Uber’s $100 million settlement with drivers settles very little – here’s...
Alan Hyde, Rutgers University Newark
Uber, the popular ride-hailing app, just announced it has settled two class action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts in...