臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

After the economic crises the world is experiencing a huge change which will lead to a new economic model. Now in the transition, our society is trying to design a new model in which the management of the resources will be understood in a different way. The crash in 2007 was the beginning of the change. We need to consider ourselves intellectually very lucky, because now we are able to understand how a new model is being shaped.
After reading this thesis you are going to be able to identify some of the changes we as society are experimenting, how are we trying to design this new paradigm and how new companies are trying to manage the resources differently from before.
Furthering more, and entering in detail, you will understand the role of shared economies in the freelancing field and its contribution to the fight for unemployment, one of the most harmful macroeconomic indicators in the world right now. A comparison in between the main market leaders in this aspect will allow the reader to know which characteristics contribute to the unemployment fight.

Chapter I: Introduction 1
1.1-Background 1
1.2-Motivation 4
1.3-Thesis objective and outline 5
Chapter II: Literature Review 7
2.1-Economic Context 7
2.2-Recent Market Trends 9
2.3-Decreasing salaries in the world 10
2.4-Definition of sharing economies 12
2.4.1-Background in shared economies business models 14
2.4.2-Types of shared economies and collaborative consumption 15
2.4.3-Benefits in shared economies 16
2.5-Freelancing in shared economy business models. 19
Chapter III: Case Studies 20
3.1-Introduction and research method 20
3.2- Case 1: Fiverr 20
3.3- Case 2: Upwork 22
3.4- Case 4: Toptal 23
Chapter IV: Results 25
4.1-Which is the platform able to scope the largest majority of freelancers? 25
4.2-Which is the platform adding more value in terms of income for the contractors and freelancers? 26
4.3-Which platform the contractors trust the most? 28
Chapter 5: Conclusions 30
References 32

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