Gig Ekonomisinde Motorlu Kuryelerin Girişimci Kişilik Özellikleri

Year 2025, Volume: 40 Issue: 4, 1174 - 1194, 01.10.2025

Savaş Şimşek , Hava Yaşbay Kobal

https://doi.org/10.24988/ije.1536944

Abstract

İnsanların yaşamları boyunca karşılaştıkları olum ya da olumsuz durumlar, yaşamlarını devam ettirmeleri için karşılaştıkları bu her türden duruma uyum sağlamalarını gerektirmektedir. Yaşanan her gelişme yeni yaşam şekillerinin oluşmasına katkı sağlar. Bu çalışma, dünyayı etkisi altına alan Covid-19 pandemisi ile ivme kazanan ve popülerliğini devam ettirerek gelişen gig ekonomisi ile ilgilidir. Gig ekonomisi kapsamı oldukça geniş bir ekonomik sistemi temsil etmekle birlikte, bazı mesleklerde doğrudan müşteri ile iletişim söz konusuyken, bazı meslek gruplarında online çalışma ile iş sonlandırılabilmektedir. Fakat yapılan işin özünde herhangi bir işverene bağlı olmak yerine bireysel girişimcilik sözkonusudur. Bu çalışmanın amacı da gig ekonomisinde faaliyet gösteren motorlu kuryelerin girişimci kişilik özelliklerini saptamaktır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda veriler çevrimiçi anket yöntemiyle toplanmıştır. Çalışmada İşcan ve Kaygın (2011) tarafından geliştirilen “girişimcilik eğilimleri” ölçeğinden faydalanılmıştır. Bu kapsamda 155 motorlu kuryeden elde edilen veriler, SPSS 26 nicel analiz programında analiz edilmiştir. Sözkonusu analiz programında demografik özelliklerin frekans dağılımları yapılmış olup, özellikle katılımcıların “yaş dağılımları” ile “mesleki süreleri” arasındaki ilişki Crosstabs yöntemi ile ortaya konulmuştur. Buradan hareketle girişimcilik kişilik özelliklerine dâhil olan değişkenler ise yine demografik değişkenler ile ANOVA yöntemiyle karşılaştırmaya tabi tutulmuştur. Araştırma sonucunda araştırmaya katılan motorlu kuryelerin genel anlamda girişimci kişilik özelliklerine sahip oldukları anlaşılmakta olup bu özellikler içerisinde yer alan “kendine güven”, “belirsizlik toleransı” ve “risk alma” seviyelerinde farklılıklar olduğu görülmüştür.

Keywords

Gig Ekonomisi , Girişimcilik , Kişilik , Girişimci Kişilik özellikleri , İnsan ihtiyaçları

Entrepreneurial Personality Traits of Moto-Couriers in The Gig Economy

Abstract

The positive or negative situations that humans encounter throughout their life require them to adapt to all kinds of situations they encounter in order to continue their life. Every development contributes to the formation of new ways of life. This study is about the gig economy, which has gained momentum with the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected the world and continues to develop by continuing its popularity. Although the gig economy represents a very broad economic system, in some professions there is direct communication with the customer, while in some professional groups the job can be completed by working online. However, the essence of the work is individual entrepreneurship rather than being contracted to any employer. The aim of this study is to determine the entrepreneurial personality characteristics of motor couriers operating in the gig economy. For this purpose, data were collected by online survey method. The "entrepreneurship tendencies" scale developed by İşcan and Kaygın (2011) was used in the study. In this context, the data obtained from 155 motor couriers were analyzed in the SPSS 26 quantitative analysis program. In the analysis program in question, frequency distributions of demographic variables were made, and especially the relationship between the "age distributions" and "professional durations" of the participants were calculated by the Crosstabs method. Based on this, the variables included in the entrepreneurial personality traits were compared with demographic variables using the ANOVA method. As a result of the research, it was understood that the motor couriers who participated in the research generally had entrepreneurial personality traits, and it was observed that there were differences in the levels of "self confidence", "tolerance of ambiguity" and "propensity to take risk" among these traits.

Keywords

Gig Economy , Entrepreneurship , Personality , Entrepreneurial Personality Traits , Human Needs

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