Legal affordances in global wealth chains: How platform firms use legal and spatial scaling
Legal affordances in global wealth chains: How platform firms use legal and spatial scaling
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全球财富链中的法律可供性:平台公司如何利用法律和空间尺度
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2021
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通讯作者:
Duncan Wigan
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Maj Grasten;Leonard Seabrooke;Duncan Wigan
Firms can use legal and spatial scaling to increase their control and capacity to exploit assets. Here we examine how platform firms, like AirBnB, Uber, and Bird, scale their operations through global wealth chains. Their use of law is to maximize wealth creation and protection, while their services use local spaces to extract value from established property, labor, and public thoroughfares. We examine how such ‘networked accumulation’ platform firms use legal and spatial scaling through legal affordances. This includes opportunities for absences, ambiguities and arbitrage that are realized via multi and inter-scalar strategies and produce variegation. Our analysis draws on legal documents, as well as interviews, from Barcelona and San Francisco. The article contributes with a model of how platform firms use legal and spatial scaling, as well as how activists can challenge their operations.
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10.1177/0308518x17752682
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2018
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Economy and Space
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Langley P