The sharing economy and digital platforms: A review and research agenda

By Will Sutherland, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi. International Journal of Information Management, 2018

601 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract Over the last few years the sharing economy has been changing the way that people share and conduct transactions in digital spaces. This research phenomenon has drawn scholars from a large number of disparate fields and disciplines into an emerging research area. Given the variety of perspectives represented, there is a great need to collect and connect what has been done, and to identify some common themes, which will serve as a basis for future discussions on the crucial roles played by digital platforms in the sharing economy. Drawing on a collection of 435 publications on the sharing economy and related terms, we identify some trends in the literature and underlying research interests. Specifically, we organize the literature around the concept of platform mediation, and draw a set of essential affordances of sharing economy technologies from the reviewed literature. We present the notion of platform centralization/decentralization as an effective organizing principle for the variety of perspectives on the sharing economy, and also evaluate scholars' treatment of technology itself. Finally, we identify important gaps in the existing literature on the relationship between digital platforms and sharing economy, and provide directions for future investigations.

Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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In Marketing

1. Nripendra P. Rana
2. Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
3. Abdullah Mohammed Baabdullah
4. John S. Edwards
5. Yanqing Duan
6. Will Sutherland
7. Thompson S. H. Teo
8. Robert M. Davison

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
2. Nripendra P. Rana
3. Yanqing Duan
4. John S. Edwards
5. Abdullah Mohammed Baabdullah
6. Maung Kyaw Sein
7. Ali Abdallah Alalwan
8. Suprateek Sarker

Citations in the corpus

• Has Digital Financial Inclusion Narrowed the Urban-Rural Income Gap: The Role of Entrepreneurship in China (2021, background): “At the same time, the combination of digital finance and inclusive finance is beneficial to financial service users, digital financial providers, the government and the economy [38].”
• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on information management research and practice: Transforming education, work and life (2020, methodology): “Platform : depicts a firm's usage of the appropriate business model, for example, a platform to drive business goals (Sutherland & Jarrahi, 2018).”
• Algorithmic management in a work context (2021, background): “Much of what we know about algorithmic management comes from nascent research in this domain (e.g. Meijerink and Keegan, 2019; Sutherland and Jarrahi, 2018), where a particular focus has been placed on how algorithmic management both substitutes and complements traditional managerial over-sight…”
• Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action (2022, methodology): “The sharing economy is one way for existing resources to be used more efficiently (Sutherland & Jarrahi, 2018).”
• How should we understand the digital economy in Asia? Critical assessment and research agenda (2020, neutral): “…we also have seen the rise of manufacturing innovation brought about by emerging information technologies (ITs) and their applications (which include the sharing economy), blockchain technology, 3D printing, and machine learning (ML), among others around the world (Sutherland and Jarrahi, 2018).”