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The Sensemaking of Professional Freelancers in the Gig Economy: aACase Study of Production Professionals at a Hong Kong Performing Arts Enterprise.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Sensemaking of Professional Freelancers in the Gig Economy: aACase Study of Production Professionals at a Hong Kong Performing Arts Enterprise./
Author:	Tsui, Alice.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-07A.
Subject:	Performing arts. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28260314
ISBN:	9798557009874

The Sensemaking of Professional Freelancers in the Gig Economy: aACase Study of Production Professionals at a Hong Kong Performing Arts Enterprise.
Tsui, Alice.

The Sensemaking of Professional Freelancers in the Gig Economy: aACase Study of Production Professionals at a Hong Kong Performing Arts Enterprise. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 227 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Northeastern University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This research investigated the sensemaking of professional freelancers in the gig economy: a case study of production professionals at a Hong Kong performing arts enterprise. Freelancing has become a significant phenomenon in today's human capital market, creating a dynamic gig economy. In the performing arts industry, it is the norm to engage professionals with specific skills as freelancers on a project basis. However, little is known about how these project-based professional employees make sense of their relationship with employing organisations. This study explores how professional freelancers made sense of their relationship with an employing performing arts enterprise as it transitioned from start-up to a sustainable growth stage. Since identity construction is the root of sensemaking, this study also looks into, as a sub-question, to what extent the identity construction of the professional freelance project team members shifted over time. It was a descriptive single-case study and data were collected from document reviews, semi-structured interviews, and observations. The key findings of this research concluded that (1) intrinsic rewards were more important than pecuniary motivation, (2) high work autonomy, openness and career development opportunities were essential to freelancers, (3) freelancing and loyalty were oxymoronic but a long-term relationship could still be built, (4) freelancers' roles and identity had reciprocal effects and were influenced by changes in the environment, and (5) consistency in the freelance team composition and the alignment of freelancer and organisational identity resonated with freelancers' volition and emotional attachment, to become a relational gel between freelancers and the employing organisation. This study has implications for employers of professional freelancers in the performing arts gig economy, as well as organisations that rely heavily on the input of professional freelancers.

ISBN: 9798557009874Subjects--Topical Terms:

523119
Performing arts.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Gig economy

The Sensemaking of Professional Freelancers in the Gig Economy: aACase Study of Production Professionals at a Hong Kong Performing Arts Enterprise.
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