{"id":"https://openalex.org/W3126400892","doi":"https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2021.791","title":"Inferring Supplier Quality in the Gig Economy: The Effectiveness of Signals in Freelance Job Markets","display_name":"Inferring Supplier Quality in the Gig Economy: The Effectiveness of Signals in Freelance Job Markets","publication_year":2021,"publication_date":"2021-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W3126400892","doi":"https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2021.791","mag":"3126400892"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.24251/hicss.2021.791","doi":"https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2021.791","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2021.791","pdf_url":"http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/71411/1/0643.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210195248","display_name":"Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)","issn_l":"1530-1605","issn":["1530-1605","2572-6862"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["jufo-1","norway-1"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"conference"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"volume":null,"type":"conference-paper","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"bronze","oa_url":"http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/71411/1/0643.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5027105121","display_name":"Abhishek Kathuria","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2925-7654","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2925-7654"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I122328836","display_name":"Indian School of Business","ror":"https://ror.org/027t6ka17","country_code":"IN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I122328836"]}],"countries":["IN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Abhishek Kathuria","raw_affiliation_strings":["Indian School Business"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Indian School Business","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I122328836"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5079506142","display_name":"Terence J. V. Saldanha","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5127-3867","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5127-3867"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I165733156","display_name":"University of Georgia","ror":"https://ror.org/00te3t702","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I165733156"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Terence Saldanha","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Georgia"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Georgia","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I165733156"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5069228902","display_name":"Jiban Khuntia","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8280-3231","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8280-3231"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I921990950","display_name":"University of Colorado Denver","ror":"https://ror.org/02hh7en24","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I921990950"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Jiban Khuntia","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Colorado Denver"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Colorado Denver","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I921990950"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5074926297","display_name":"Mariana Giovanna Andrade Rojas","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7380-6617","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7380-6617"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I172675005","display_name":"Nanyang Technological University","ror":"https://ror.org/02e7b5302","country_code":"SG","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I172675005"]}],"countries":["SG"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Mariana Andrade Rojas","raw_affiliation_strings":["Nanyang Technological University"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Nanyang Technological University","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I172675005"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5086635152","display_name":"Sunil Mithas","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2182-6202","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2182-6202"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I2613432","display_name":"University of South Florida","ror":"https://ror.org/032db5x82","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2613432"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Sunil Mithas","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of South Florida"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of South Florida","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I2613432"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5083360643","display_name":"Hyeyoung Hah","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7763-1095","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7763-1095"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I19700959","display_name":"Florida International University","ror":"https://ror.org/02gz6gg07","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I19700959"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Hyeyoung Hah","raw_affiliation_strings":["Florida International University"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Florida International University","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I19700959"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":3,"institutions_distinct_count":6,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":8.5766,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":21,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.97866034,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":92,"max":98},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12501","display_name":"Digital Economy and Work Transformation","score":0.8935999870300293,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12501","display_name":"Digital Economy and Work Transformation","score":0.8935999870300293,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11704","display_name":"Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing","score":0.05889999866485596,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1706","display_name":"Computer Science Applications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11182","display_name":"Auction Theory and Applications","score":0.008999999612569809,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1803","display_name":"Management Science and Operations Research"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/gig-economy","display_name":"gig economy","score":0.8999999761581421},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/information-signals","display_name":"information signals","score":0.7879999876022339},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/job-tenure","display_name":"job tenure","score":0.9340000152587891},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/cultural-distance","display_name":"cultural distance","score":0.9990000128746033},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/online-job-boards","display_name":"online job boards","score":0.6079999804496765},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/labor-demand","display_name":"labor demand","score":0.3779999911785126}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779530757","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1207505","display_name":"Quality (philosophy)","level":2,"score":0.7621259689331055},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C112758219","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16038819","display_name":"Duration (music)","level":2,"score":0.6291900873184204},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144133560","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4830453","display_name":"Business","level":0,"score":0.6030265092849731},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162853370","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39809","display_name":"Marketing","level":1,"score":0.4457722008228302},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C40700","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1411783","display_name":"Industrial organization","level":1,"score":0.4028497338294983},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C145236788","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28161","display_name":"Labour economics","level":1,"score":0.3391185402870178},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.25159314274787903},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124952713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8242","display_name":"Literature","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":5,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.24251/hicss.2021.791","doi":"https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2021.791","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2021.791","pdf_url":"http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/71411/1/0643.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210195248","display_name":"Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)","issn_l":"1530-1605","issn":["1530-1605","2572-6862"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["jufo-1","norway-1"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"conference"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/71411","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71411","pdf_url":"https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstreams/9eb84492-6488-4518-b5ba-05eb2af9f1c3/download","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401722","display_name":"ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I117965899","host_organization_name":"University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I117965899"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by-nc-nd","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nc-nd","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null},{"id":"pmh:oai:aisel.aisnet.org:hicss-54-1853","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-54/os/sites/10","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S30879505","display_name":"Journal of the Association for Information Systems","issn_l":"1536-9323","issn":["1536-9323"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-a-star","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-a","fnege-1","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310321080","host_organization_name":"Association for Information Systems","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310321080"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Association for Information Systems"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2021 (HICSS-54)","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:eprints.exchange.isb.edu:1411","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71411","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196660","display_name":"Digital Eprints Services at ISB (DESI) (Indian School of Business)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I122328836","host_organization_name":"Indian School of Business","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I122328836"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by-nc-nd","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nc-nd","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Conference or Workshop Item"},{"id":"pmh:oai:figshare.com:article/30092881","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Inferring_supplier_quality_in_the_gig_economy_The_effectiveness_of_signals_in_freelance_job_markets/30092881","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4377196282","display_name":"Figshare","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I4210132348","host_organization_name":"Figshare (United Kingdom)","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210132348"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Conference contribution"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.24251/hicss.2021.791","doi":"https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2021.791","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2021.791","pdf_url":"http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/71411/1/0643.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4210195248","display_name":"Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)","issn_l":"1530-1605","issn":["1530-1605","2572-6862"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["jufo-1","norway-1"],"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"conference"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/8","score":1.0,"display_name":"Decent work and economic growth"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W3126400892.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W3126400892.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":37,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1485535210","https://openalex.org/W1872515333","https://openalex.org/W1978311462","https://openalex.org/W1984131812","https://openalex.org/W2008516933","https://openalex.org/W2037127653","https://openalex.org/W2037720234","https://openalex.org/W2040385951","https://openalex.org/W2040714583","https://openalex.org/W2052716828","https://openalex.org/W2064628910","https://openalex.org/W2071163516","https://openalex.org/W2086943355","https://openalex.org/W2093422358","https://openalex.org/W2095463114","https://openalex.org/W2095532140","https://openalex.org/W2102045068","https://openalex.org/W2102541428","https://openalex.org/W2104929637","https://openalex.org/W2112256230","https://openalex.org/W2114193151","https://openalex.org/W2122929840","https://openalex.org/W2147059897","https://openalex.org/W2152027865","https://openalex.org/W2239979345","https://openalex.org/W2319459030","https://openalex.org/W2772566293","https://openalex.org/W2913375800","https://openalex.org/W2965035162","https://openalex.org/W3027685805","https://openalex.org/W3034556659","https://openalex.org/W3121697875","https://openalex.org/W3122445582","https://openalex.org/W3123506244","https://openalex.org/W3125692124","https://openalex.org/W3167339190","https://openalex.org/W6677496323"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W7160597543","https://openalex.org/W2781831515","https://openalex.org/W2768161252","https://openalex.org/W4293195848","https://openalex.org/W6990074622","https://openalex.org/W4200597056","https://openalex.org/W6982674922","https://openalex.org/W4400002102","https://openalex.org/W4401250135","https://openalex.org/W4415039799"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Inferring":[0],"quality":[1,118],"of":[2,26,29,34,66],"labor":[3,61],"suppliers":[4,96],"is":[5],"a":[6,77,80],"challenge":[7,19],"in":[8,59,119,125],"the":[9],"gig":[10],"economy.":[11],"Many":[12],"online":[13,82],"freelance":[14,83],"job":[15,57,69,84],"markets":[16],"address":[17],"this":[18],"by":[20,91,95],"incorporating":[21],"signals.":[22],"We":[23,53,104],"test":[24],"effectiveness":[25,65],"two":[27,56],"kinds":[28],"information":[30,87],"signals":[31,111],"as":[32],"indicators":[33],"supplier":[35,117],"quality:":[36],"skill":[37,42,108],"signal":[38,47],"(which":[39,48],"reflects":[40,49],"suppliers\u2019":[41,50],"and":[43,45,71,93,109,124,133],"potential),":[44],"achievement":[46,110],"past":[51],"achievement).":[52],"theorize":[54],"that":[55,106],"characteristics":[58],"cross-national":[60],"demand":[62],"settings":[63],"strengthen":[64],"these":[67],"signals:":[68],"duration,":[70,123],"cultural":[72,129],"distance.":[73],"Econometric":[74],"analysis":[75],"on":[76,88],"dataset":[78],"from":[79],"leading":[81],"marketplace":[85],"containing":[86],"jobs":[89,120,126],"posted":[90],"buyers":[92,132],"completed":[94],"located":[97],"across":[98],"several":[99],"countries":[100],"supports":[101],"our":[102],"hypotheses.":[103],"find":[105],"both":[107],"are":[112],"more":[113],"effective":[114],"at":[115],"inferring":[116],"involving":[121,127],"longer":[122],"greater":[128],"distance":[130],"between":[131],"suppliers.":[134]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":6},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2026-11-07T11:25:07.637180","created_date":"2021-02-15T00:00:00"}
