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The study aims to analyze the governance of platform work in Southeast Asia, focusing on three specific countries and their regulatory models.

June 7, 2026EconomiesOpen Access

Governing Platform Work in the Digital Economy: Comparative Policy Models in Southeast Asia and Pathways to Inclusive Labour Protection

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Comparative documentary analysis explores platform work governance in Southeast Asia, highlighting inclusive labour protections.

The study aims to analyze the governance of platform work in Southeast Asia, focusing on three specific countries and their regulatory models.
Qualitative comparative documentary analysis of 127 national policy documents from Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam (2015-2024).
Utilization of a five-dimensional analytical framework: legal classification, social protection, platform accountability, worker representation, governance capacity.
Testing of three falsifiable propositions regarding institutional capacity and governance design.
Identified three regulatory pathway designs: managed flexibilisation in Singapore, coordinated transition in Malaysia, and controlled experimentation in Vietnam.
Concluded that platform governance is path-dependent and institutionally mediated, not converging on a universal model.
Introduced the concept of modular regulation as a framework for understanding cross-national variation in platform labour policy.

Nguyen Thi Giang (2026) studied this question.

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