W3154698993 Peer-reviewed research AI × management and organizations

The Invisible Cage: Workers’ Reactivity to Opaque Algorithmic Evaluations

Hatim A. Rahman

Also recorded as: doi:10.1177/00018392211010118

Administrative Science Quarterly · 2021-04-21

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The abstract describes how opaque platform evaluations create an invisible-cage form of control in which freelancers cannot identify success criteria and respond through experimentation or constrained platform activity.

confidence: high crossref-api-metadata apw-c1-obot-journals

Scope: abstract-level labor-platform worker study

The abstract reports that an opaque platform-evaluation algorithm operated as worker control and elicited divergent worker responses shaped by performance, dependence, and setbacks.

confidence: high crossref-api-metadata apw-c1-obot-journals

Scope: abstract-level

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