Entrepreneurial Activism? Platform Cooperativism Between Subversion and Co-optation
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Critical Sociology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0896-9205,1569-1632
DOI: 10.1177/0896920519870577