Neither Employee nor Contractor

A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan

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ID2374665
AutoresBo-Yi Lee (0000-0002-9583-3384, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen38
Número1
Páginas122-139
Fecha de publicación2024-02-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/09500170221103147
OpenAlexW4294104445
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas26

There have been numerous legal battles in Western countries concerning employment relations between platform-based food delivery firms and their riders; however, no such legal battles have occurred in Taiwan. This qualitative case study applies the theory of institutional logics to examine the reason such legal action is absent in Taiwan, focusing on how different stakeholders apply different logics to employment relations in Taiwan's platform-based food-delivery sector. Through this investigation, this article shows that most stakeholders in this sector quickly came to a consensus that the 'quasi-employee' hybrid logic should be applied to riders, and that this was due to a convergence of worker and capitalist theories of profit, motivation to maintain the profitability of these platform firms (who are regulatory entrepreneurs performing symbolic compliance) and the techno-developmentalism of the Taiwanese government

Business · Economics · Government (linguistics · Management · Political science · Profit (economics · Profitability index · Public relations · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Finance · Industrial Relations · Marketing