TY  - JOUR
TI  - Freelancers in E-markets: A Role of Social Ties
T2  - Economic Sociology
IS  - Economic Sociology
KW  - social capital
KW  - self-employment
KW  - freelancers
KW  - e-markets
AB  - The study deals with e-markets for self-employed professionals (freelancers). These highly competitive markets emerge in a still weakly regulated cyberspace with virtual interactions. However, market ties between freelancers and their clients are not established as arm’s-length but largely as embedded ties. Social capital of freelancers becomes an effective instrument for fi nding the clients, raising earned income and reducing the moral hazards of opportunism. Empirical data are collected from an online standardized survey of more than 8 thousand freelancers, conducted by the authors in December 2008 at Free-lance.ru.
AU  - Denis Strebkov
AU  - Andrey Shevchuk
UR  - https://ecsoc.hse.ru/en/2009-10-5/26591659.html
PY  - 2009
SP  - 11-32
VL  - 10