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Hub companies shaping the future: the ethicality and corporate social responsibility of platform economy giants

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Hanna Härkönen,

Juhani Naskali,

Kai KimppaAuthors Info & Claims

IWSiB 2019: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business: Start-ups, Platforms, and Ecosystems

Pages 48 - 53

https://doi.org/10.1145/3340481.3342738

Published: 26 August 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Hub companies (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Google) rule the internet. They are de facto monopolies in their area of operations. They shape the future in which we live. And, it seems there is nothing we can do about that, as traditional economies of extreme scale – in which eventually the size of a corporation starts to be a hindrance, rather than an advantage – do not apply to them. On the contrary, they keep growing and growing and thus gaining stronger and stronger strangle hold over their respective areas of commerce and influence. This leads to unethical results, where the corporations spin out of any control, national or international. In this paper we give reasons to this phenomenon and lament the future of the internet – unless something drastic is done to change this.

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Llerena LPerez HPlazarte JCastro JRodríguez N(2024)Ethical Framework for the Software Development Process: A Systematic Mapping StudyInformation Systems and Technologies10.1007/978-3-031-45642-8_14(144-154)Online publication date: 16-Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45642-8_14
Smolander KGrünbacher PHyrynsalmi SJansen S(2020)ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Software-Intensive BusinessACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/3375572.337557745:1(18-20)Online publication date: 22-Jan-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3375572.3375577

Index Terms

Hub companies shaping the future: the ethicality and corporate social responsibility of platform economy giants
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Social networks
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Commerce policy
      1. Antitrust and competition
  2. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Economic impact

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Llerena LPerez HPlazarte JCastro JRodríguez N(2024)Ethical Framework for the Software Development Process: A Systematic Mapping StudyInformation Systems and Technologies10.1007/978-3-031-45642-8_14(144-154)Online publication date: 16-Feb-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45642-8_14
Smolander KGrünbacher PHyrynsalmi SJansen S(2020)ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Software-Intensive BusinessACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/3375572.337557745:1(18-20)Online publication date: 22-Jan-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3375572.3375577

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