Regulation.com : self-regulation and contract governance in the platform economy : a research agenda

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dc.contributor.authorCANTERO GAMITO, Marta
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-10T16:34:54Z
dc.date.available2017-04-10T16:34:54Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionPublished online: 06 April 2017en
dc.description.abstractThis essay looks at the role of online platforms as rule-makers. The disruption of the Platform Economy has come hand in hand with a broader transformation: the emergence of a post-regulatory society, which feels more and more comfortable with transacting outside conventional legal and regulatory frameworks. This has raised the question as to how to regulate these platforms, if at all. This short piece focuses on how platform businesses are developing their own governance frameworks based on self-regulation, trust, and reputation, which create incentives for online traders to comply with the platforms' terms and conditions.Due to reputational enforcement and network effects, platforms act as powerful gatekeepers of online markets, displaying features of governance through contract. By recommending the use of contract governance as an analytical framework, this essay proposes a research agenda to examine the extent to which these emerging governance frameworks act as a competing alternative to existing forms of State-provided market regulation.en
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean journal of legal studies, 2017, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 53-67en
dc.identifier.endpage67
dc.identifier.issn1973-2937
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage53
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/46068
dc.identifier.volume9
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean journal of legal studiesen
dc.relation.urihttps://ejls.eui.eu/en
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dc.titleRegulation.com : self-regulation and contract governance in the platform economy : a research agendaen
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