Beschreibung:
Technological advances such as smartphones, mobile applications and online platforms enabled a new form of economy, the so-called gig economy at large scale in which there is a free-market system allowing organizations (job provider) hire independent contractors (job seeker). Unlike traditional employer and employee relationship, the gig economy creates opportunities for independent workers to seek short-term contract jobs and temporary positions available. This article presents a systematic review of the literature associated with a bibliometric analysis on global perspective of gig economy. The study aims to present the analysis of published articles that explored Gig economy. Initially, 2297 documents were retrieved by Gig economy as a keyword from Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science between 2014 and 2022. After applying certain criteria, only 686 publications were selected in bibliometrics analysis. The selected articles were used to measure bibliometric indicators and evaluate the research work on Gig economy. Bibliometrics an R package for bibliometric and co-citation analysis was used to reach the results. VOSviewer is also used to analyze the co-occurrence of the keywords. The results highlight the publication trends, top contributing authors and their countries, most cited articles, keywords, and most contributing journals to the research field