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Market Fairness and Transparency: Examining Consumer Perceptions in Gig Economy Marketplaces.
Market Fairness and Transparency: Examining Consumer Perceptions in Gig Economy Marketplaces.
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문(국외)
- 기본표목-개인명
- 표제와 책임표시사항
- Market Fairness and Transparency: Examining Consumer Perceptions in Gig Economy Marketplaces.
- 발행, 배포, 간사 사항
- 발행, 배포, 간사 사항
- 형태사항
- 105 p.
- 일반주기
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-04, Section: B.
- 일반주기
- Advisor: Cheshire, Coye.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 요약 등 주기
- 요약Today consumers interact with markets in a wide variety of ways that are mediated by technology. We perform a wide variety of everyday activities - such as booking short trips, buying food delivery, and shopping for groceries - through marketplaces managed by large, for-profit technology companies. Consumers negotiate not only with other economic actors, but the presence of a large technology company, when performing such ordinary and mundane tasks. These markets connect different groups of economic actors, where for-profit companies decide marketplace architecture, information and the availability of choices.Economic sociologist Koray Caliskan (2007) describes the prevalence of markets on our everyday lives: "A mysterious certainty dominates our lives in late capitalist modernity: the price. Not a single day passes without learning, making, and taking it. Yet despite prices' widespread presence around us, we do not know much about them" (p. 241). Hayek (1945) proposed that the "marvel" of markets and the price mechanism was its relative invisibility, that allowed the decentralized coordination of a wide series of actors without explicit control.But today's technology-mediated marketplaces have assertively departed from this notion of markets as free-acting, intangible institutions, instead becoming managed environments that are to an extent visible and tangible as technical artifacts. These technology-mediated marketplaces have become in some ways more visible to consumers in the form of front-facing apps, as well as their association with the organizations that govern them, primarily by for-profit technology companies. In so doing, longstanding assumptions about how markets should function are put under scrutiny, forcing a re-engagement with basic assumptions of how fair markets should operate by users, citizens and regulators alike. This dissertation examines how such technological mediation has affected how consumers think about and use markets, particularly around issues of fairness.I first examine consumer perceptions of fairness in two qualitative studies investigating marketplace practices which, particularly in their inception, have undergone a wide degree of scrutiny and controversy: 1) tipping in third-party food delivery and 2) surge pricing in ridesharing. I explore how consumers perceive fairness in engaging in these economic practices when using technology-mediated marketplaces. In 2019, DoorDash faced significant pushback following a The New York Times report that drivers did not always receive all tips from customers, highlighting a gap between how consumers perceived the marketplace to function vs. its implementation in practice (Newman, 2019a). Similarly, Uber has faced a great deal of media scrutiny over its implementation of surge pricing since its introduction in 2011, with Uber first requiring users to accept an additional screen of higher surge prices, but subsequently concealing numeric multipliers to consumers, though they still operate in the background.In the final project of this dissertation, I conduct an experiment to ask: How do transparency measures provided to consumers influence their use and willingness to pay for rideshare services? I conduct a vignette experiment to gauge whether consumers are more inclined to accept higher prices when they are set by a state transportation agency as opposed to a for-profit technology company. I additionally vary information provided to consumers of the percentage of fares they pay that go to drivers, to determine if they show a higher willingness to use ridesharing marketplaces if they perceive more income going directly to drivers.Across these projects, I seek to push the boundaries of how we may think about the design of technology-mediated marketplaces and the institutions that govern them. In making decisions on marketplace design and architecture, technology companies often argue that these decisions are based on increasing efficiency or improving social welfare, despite having a clear financial incentive to prioritize profit. The chosen implementations of tipping and surge pricing by companies like DoorDash and Uber have attracted controversy through the years, but have to some extent abated. Technology companies have also learnt from public outcry or pushback, either by revising their policies, or choosing to obscure their processes, as Uber now does in not showing surge multipliers to consumers at all.Describing a concept from the field of the history of technology, Jackson et al. (2014) describe a "process of 'stabilization' or 'closure' through which emergent technological artifacts and practices take on their more settled and durable forms" (p. 592). I argue that such a process is currently taking place in the design of technology-mediated marketplaces, where policies that may have attracted controversy initially have been engineered or reframed to avoid social censure or pushback.Ultimately, the current instantiation of how technology-mediated markets are utilized in our society is not inevitable. Consumer perceptions of not only how markets function, but how technology-mediated markets function, and how these interact with one another, will be integral to the extent and success of their future use. This dissertation undertakes to better understand the full implications of technological mediation on how everyday consumers perceive and use markets, and how the fairness perceptions of consumers can ultimately affect the ability to use technology-mediated markets effectively in society.I find that the technological mediation of markets has important implications on how consumers view fairness in markets. When consumers interact with markets in gig economy services, they often focus on their relationship with the company, viewing their interactions with individual gig workers or the market at large through the lens of their beliefs and expectations of technology companies. Around surge pricing specifically, I also find that increasing visibility and transparency about market processes can have an opposing effect, raising more questions for consumers on how market prices are set, thus giving companies an incentive to obscure market processes.In a blinded, randomized experiment, I also find that participants were both willing to pay significantly more, as well as use ridesharing services more frequently, when they are provided with information that 90% of fares go to drivers. This result suggests that there may be significant social costs associated with control of for-profit technology companies over ridesharing marketplaces, since ridesharing companies have little incentive to increase share of fares to drivers or provide fare distribution information. In my conclusion, I discuss these results in the context of the current antitrust and regulatory environment in the U.S. around technology-mediated marketplaces, and the need to explore alternative institutional arrangements to ensure and maximize the beneficial use of markets for society.
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■520 ▼aToday consumers interact with markets in a wide variety of ways that are mediated by technology. We perform a wide variety of everyday activities - such as booking short trips, buying food delivery, and shopping for groceries - through marketplaces managed by large, for-profit technology companies. Consumers negotiate not only with other economic actors, but the presence of a large technology company, when performing such ordinary and mundane tasks. These markets connect different groups of economic actors, where for-profit companies decide marketplace architecture, information and the availability of choices.Economic sociologist Koray Caliskan (2007) describes the prevalence of markets on our everyday lives: "A mysterious certainty dominates our lives in late capitalist modernity: the price. Not a single day passes without learning, making, and taking it. Yet despite prices' widespread presence around us, we do not know much about them" (p. 241). Hayek (1945) proposed that the "marvel" of markets and the price mechanism was its relative invisibility, that allowed the decentralized coordination of a wide series of actors without explicit control.But today's technology-mediated marketplaces have assertively departed from this notion of markets as free-acting, intangible institutions, instead becoming managed environments that are to an extent visible and tangible as technical artifacts. These technology-mediated marketplaces have become in some ways more visible to consumers in the form of front-facing apps, as well as their association with the organizations that govern them, primarily by for-profit technology companies. In so doing, longstanding assumptions about how markets should function are put under scrutiny, forcing a re-engagement with basic assumptions of how fair markets should operate by users, citizens and regulators alike. This dissertation examines how such technological mediation has affected how consumers think about and use markets, particularly around issues of fairness.I first examine consumer perceptions of fairness in two qualitative studies investigating marketplace practices which, particularly in their inception, have undergone a wide degree of scrutiny and controversy: 1) tipping in third-party food delivery and 2) surge pricing in ridesharing. I explore how consumers perceive fairness in engaging in these economic practices when using technology-mediated marketplaces. In 2019, DoorDash faced significant pushback following a The New York Times report that drivers did not always receive all tips from customers, highlighting a gap between how consumers perceived the marketplace to function vs. its implementation in practice (Newman, 2019a). Similarly, Uber has faced a great deal of media scrutiny over its implementation of surge pricing since its introduction in 2011, with Uber first requiring users to accept an additional screen of higher surge prices, but subsequently concealing numeric multipliers to consumers, though they still operate in the background.In the final project of this dissertation, I conduct an experiment to ask: How do transparency measures provided to consumers influence their use and willingness to pay for rideshare services? I conduct a vignette experiment to gauge whether consumers are more inclined to accept higher prices when they are set by a state transportation agency as opposed to a for-profit technology company. I additionally vary information provided to consumers of the percentage of fares they pay that go to drivers, to determine if they show a higher willingness to use ridesharing marketplaces if they perceive more income going directly to drivers.Across these projects, I seek to push the boundaries of how we may think about the design of technology-mediated marketplaces and the institutions that govern them. In making decisions on marketplace design and architecture, technology companies often argue that these decisions are based on increasing efficiency or improving social welfare, despite having a clear financial incentive to prioritize profit. The chosen implementations of tipping and surge pricing by companies like DoorDash and Uber have attracted controversy through the years, but have to some extent abated. Technology companies have also learnt from public outcry or pushback, either by revising their policies, or choosing to obscure their processes, as Uber now does in not showing surge multipliers to consumers at all.Describing a concept from the field of the history of technology, Jackson et al. (2014) describe a "process of 'stabilization' or 'closure' through which emergent technological artifacts and practices take on their more settled and durable forms" (p. 592). I argue that such a process is currently taking place in the design of technology-mediated marketplaces, where policies that may have attracted controversy initially have been engineered or reframed to avoid social censure or pushback.Ultimately, the current instantiation of how technology-mediated markets are utilized in our society is not inevitable. Consumer perceptions of not only how markets function, but how technology-mediated markets function, and how these interact with one another, will be integral to the extent and success of their future use. This dissertation undertakes to better understand the full implications of technological mediation on how everyday consumers perceive and use markets, and how the fairness perceptions of consumers can ultimately affect the ability to use technology-mediated markets effectively in society.I find that the technological mediation of markets has important implications on how consumers view fairness in markets. When consumers interact with markets in gig economy services, they often focus on their relationship with the company, viewing their interactions with individual gig workers or the market at large through the lens of their beliefs and expectations of technology companies. Around surge pricing specifically, I also find that increasing visibility and transparency about market processes can have an opposing effect, raising more questions for consumers on how market prices are set, thus giving companies an incentive to obscure market processes.In a blinded, randomized experiment, I also find that participants were both willing to pay significantly more, as well as use ridesharing services more frequently, when they are provided with information that 90% of fares go to drivers. This result suggests that there may be significant social costs associated with control of for-profit technology companies over ridesharing marketplaces, since ridesharing companies have little incentive to increase share of fares to drivers or provide fare distribution information. In my conclusion, I discuss these results in the context of the current antitrust and regulatory environment in the U.S. around technology-mediated marketplaces, and the need to explore alternative institutional arrangements to ensure and maximize the beneficial use of markets for society.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0028.
■650 4▼aInformation science.
■650 4▼aComputer science.
■650 4▼aHome economics.
■653 ▼aFairness
■653 ▼aGig economy
■653 ▼aMarket fairness
■653 ▼aPlatform
■653 ▼aTechnology-mediated marketplaces
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■71020▼aUniversity of California, Berkeley▼bInformation Management & Systems.
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■792 ▼a2025
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