Software gigging: A grounded theory of online software development freelancing

Despite the rapid growth of online freelancing as an industrial sector, there is a lack of research in it, especially in a country like the Philippines, which, though an important online freelancing destination, belongs to the global south. This study uses the grounded theory method to explore the p...

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Main Authors: Sison, Raymund C., Lavilles, Rabby Q.
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:faculty_research-43802022-08-26T03:09:13Z Software gigging: A grounded theory of online software development freelancing Sison, Raymund C. Lavilles, Rabby Q. Despite the rapid growth of online freelancing as an industrial sector, there is a lack of research in it, especially in a country like the Philippines, which, though an important online freelancing destination, belongs to the global south. This study uses the grounded theory method to explore the practices of online software development freelancers, or software e-lancers, in the said country. The result is a substantive theory that views earning flexibly as the main concern of software e-lancers. To resolve this main concern, they engage in what we call software gigging, which is a cyclical process of gig-hunting and gig-executing, each of which has several activities. Software gigging becomes increasingly lucrative and flexible as one advances through the gigging stages of noob, rockstar, and super-rockstar. As they do software gigging, software e-lancers use various strategies such as reputationing or circumtechventing, depending on the specific gigging activity and stage that they are in. © International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018.All rights reserved. 2018-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3378 Faculty Research Work Animo Repository Computer software—Development--Philippines Self-employed--Philippines Software Engineering
institution De La Salle University
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topic Computer software—Development--Philippines
Self-employed--Philippines
Software Engineering
spellingShingle Computer software—Development--Philippines
Self-employed--Philippines
Software Engineering
Sison, Raymund C.
Lavilles, Rabby Q.
Software gigging: A grounded theory of online software development freelancing
description Despite the rapid growth of online freelancing as an industrial sector, there is a lack of research in it, especially in a country like the Philippines, which, though an important online freelancing destination, belongs to the global south. This study uses the grounded theory method to explore the practices of online software development freelancers, or software e-lancers, in the said country. The result is a substantive theory that views earning flexibly as the main concern of software e-lancers. To resolve this main concern, they engage in what we call software gigging, which is a cyclical process of gig-hunting and gig-executing, each of which has several activities. Software gigging becomes increasingly lucrative and flexible as one advances through the gigging stages of noob, rockstar, and super-rockstar. As they do software gigging, software e-lancers use various strategies such as reputationing or circumtechventing, depending on the specific gigging activity and stage that they are in. © International Conference on Information Systems 2018, ICIS 2018.All rights reserved.
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author Sison, Raymund C.
Lavilles, Rabby Q.
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Lavilles, Rabby Q.
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title Software gigging: A grounded theory of online software development freelancing
title_short Software gigging: A grounded theory of online software development freelancing
title_full Software gigging: A grounded theory of online software development freelancing
title_fullStr Software gigging: A grounded theory of online software development freelancing
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