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On the other their business models are predicated on the ability to empower professionals to deliver services independently. The key word to understanding this brave new world is control says Andrei Hagiu an associate professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School who wades into the controversy with a new working paper Enabling Versus Controlling co written with National University of Singapore economics professor Julian Wright.
Uber may have very good business reasons for controlling certain parameters of the service—price for example—but being flexible in other areas such as letting drivers choose the Indonesia Mobile Number List car they drive says Hagiu. This places Uber somewhere in between pure platforms and pure employers. While everyone agrees that the key defining characteristic is the extent of that control there is no clear sense from the courts of exactly where the dividing line between platforms and employers might be. In some ways Uber doesn t look like a traditional company—but it does have a corporate headquarters in San Francisco.©iStock Jason.
Doly These issues are hardly new. to real estate agencies have long organized themselves as associations of individuals with the company itself exerting more or less control over the interaction between service provider and customer. Some hair salons employ their stylists provide them with product lines and equipment and conduct advertising. Others salons simply rent out chairs to independent stylists and allow them to cut hair and cultivate new clients as they see fit. Companies have played with this degree of freedom for a long time says Hagiu.
Uber may have very good business reasons for controlling certain parameters of the service—price for example—but being flexible in other areas such as letting drivers choose the Indonesia Mobile Number List car they drive says Hagiu. This places Uber somewhere in between pure platforms and pure employers. While everyone agrees that the key defining characteristic is the extent of that control there is no clear sense from the courts of exactly where the dividing line between platforms and employers might be. In some ways Uber doesn t look like a traditional company—but it does have a corporate headquarters in San Francisco.©iStock Jason.
Doly These issues are hardly new. to real estate agencies have long organized themselves as associations of individuals with the company itself exerting more or less control over the interaction between service provider and customer. Some hair salons employ their stylists provide them with product lines and equipment and conduct advertising. Others salons simply rent out chairs to independent stylists and allow them to cut hair and cultivate new clients as they see fit. Companies have played with this degree of freedom for a long time says Hagiu.