Evaluating Sustainability of Sharing Economy Business Models

By Asta Daunorienė, Aura Drakšaitė, Vytautas Snieška, Gitana Valodkienė. 2015

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Abstract Decreased consumer trust, increased unemployment rate, increased availability of technology for hosting an online market drives the growth of sharing economy. The sharing economy provides an ideal lens to explore and contribute to the sustainable development nature. While the sharing economy can contribute to sustainable development and has plenty of room to develop practical issues in driving sustainability there is a lack of sharing economy sustainability empirical studies. This article seeks to provide an approach how to address and estimate sharing economy business models sustainability. This approach aims to determine key sustainability perspectives by using Circles of Sustainability. Key sustainability perspectives have been taken as input to estimate the level of sustainability. This practice can be served as a useful methodology to support decisions toward to sharing economy business models sustainability transition.

Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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• Conceptualizing the Sharing Economy through Presenting a Comprehensive Framework (2018, background): “(2015) and Allen and Berg (2014) believe that these definitions are not in contrast by their nature, but evolutionary [26,31], since “the definition of the concept is taking shape with the level of inclusivity and variety in scope” [26] (p.”