The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

By Arun Sundararajan. 2016

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Preferences for car sharing services: Effects of instrumental attributes and psychological ownership (2017, background): “1.1 The sharing economy and car sharing service The sharing economy is an economic arrangement between actors who share underutilized assets – i.e., products that people own but do not frequently use – in the marketplace (Cohen & Kietzmann, 2014; Bardhi & Eckhardt, 2012; Sundararajan, 2016).”
The Sharing Economy Globalization Phenomenon: A Research Agenda (2017, background): “Sharing economy firms can be seen as examples of platform capitalism, which consists of intermediary firms relying on data analytics and market coordination to appropriate rent from transactions (Langley and Leyshon, in press; Sundararajan, 2016).”
The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes (2019, background): “Similarly, digital infrastructures and platforms have allowed for the emergence of new work structures that redefine industry/sectoral boundaries and shape local and regional economic health (Malone, 2018; Sundararajan, 2016).”
Negotiating labour standards in the gig economy: Airtasker and Unions New South Wales (2017, background): “See also De Stefano (2016); Sundararajan (2016) and Productivity Commission (2016).”
What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy (2020, background): “Economists emphasized the ability of algorithms and crowd-sourced ratings and reputational information to reduce transaction costs and foster trust, enabling peers to compete in these new markets (Einav et al. 2016, Horton & Zeckhauser 2016, Sundararajan 2016).”
Regulating work in the gig economy: What are the options? (2017, background): “The alternative is to stand by and allow working arrangements to degrade into a noholds-barred vision of ‘crowd-based capitalism’ (Sundararajan, 2016), with all the hardship that model would entail.”
The consumer production journey: marketing to consumers as co-producers in the sharing economy (2018, methodology): “In the sharing economy, consumers act as co-producers by creating value for other consumers with whom they engage on online platforms (Frenken and Schor 2017; Narasimhan et al. 2018; Sundararajan 2016; Telles 2016).”
Sharing versus collaborative economy: how to align ICT developments and the SDGs in tourism? (2019, background): “…SDGs: sustainable economic growth (8); innovation (9); sustainable consumption and production (12); and peaceful and inclusive societies (16), while Sundararajan (2016) suggests that in addition to its employment generating potential and its contribution to dematerialization, the sharing economy…”
Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control (2020, background): “Second, in contrast to past forms of technical and bureaucratic control, organizations can recruit workers on a greater scale and in a fraction of the time recruiting used to take (Kittur et al., 2013; Sundararajan, 2016; Valentine et al., 2017).”
Does the sharing economy increase inequality within the eighty percent?: findings from a qualitative study of platform providers (2017, background): “Sharing platforms reduce transaction costs for person-to-person exchange, in part by crowdsourcing information from users but also via their sophisticated logistics software (Sundararajan, 2016).”
Platform Real Estate: theory and practice of new urban real estate markets (2018, background): “And bridging both technical and economic domains, platforms are often theorized in terms of their effective impact on business processes and institutional forms in terms of efficiencies and information exchange (Sundararajan, 2016).”
Über-Alienated: Powerless and Alone in the Gig Economy (2021, background): “…isolation, powerlessness, worker autonomy The growth of flexible, short-term contracts and freelance work—signature features of the gig economy—has sparked debate about the implications of these temporary work arrangements for worker autonomy and well-being (De Stefano, 2016; Sundararajan, 2016).”
Marketing in the Sharing Economy (2019, background): “Finally, prior research suggests that the resources (both tangible and intangible) accessed through sharing platforms may be crowdsourced (e.g., Narasimhan et al. 2018; Sundararajan 2016b).”
Automation, Algorithms, and Beyond: Why Work Design Matters More Than Ever in a Digital World (2020, background): “Commentators argue that gig work, such as online piece work and uber driving, provide workers choice about when and where to work, and the chance to achieve a better balance between work and other commitments (T. Johns & Gratton, 2013; Malone, 2004; Sundararajan, 2016).”
Airbnb and the rent gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy (2018, background): “The sharing economy has its free-market triumphalist advocates (e.g., Hopkins, 2016), as well as liberal-progressive defenders who view it as an opportunity for destabilizing marketoriented consumerism and individual ownership (e.g., Sundararajan, 2016).”
The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts (2021, background): “Nevertheless, SE is generally considered to atomize business transactions and offer chances for emerging businesses that disrupt incumbents (Easterling, 2018; Liang et al., 2018; Sundararajan, 2016).”