Why Not Share Rather Than Own?

By R. Belk. 2007

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Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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The consumer production journey: marketing to consumers as co-producers in the sharing economy (2018, background): “Early on, several authors emphasized noncommercial variants of sharing economy systems (Belk 2007, 2010; Benkler 2002; Botsman and Rogers 2010; Thomas et al. 2013).”
Sharing as a form of anti‐consumption? An examination of toy library users (2010, methodology): “As sharing is a communal act, it may connect us to others and create feelings of solidarity and bonding (Belk, 2010). Belk (2007) proposed that sharing is an alternative form of distribution to commodity exchange or gift giving, and compared to those more traditional forms of distribution, may foste”
Mindful consumption: a customer-centric approach to sustainability (2011, background): “2004), and shared-use of products which is promoted by many community organizations and social networks (Belk 2007; Mont 2004; Trejos 2009).”
Personal or Product Reputation? Optimizing Revenues in the Sharing Economy (2019, background): “Philosophically and conceptually, sharing economy revolves around the idea of gift giving (Belk 2007), with past research investigating the psychological motivations for sharing (Bardhi and Eckhardt 2012; Lamberton and Rose 2012).”
Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world (2016, background): “The benefits of this apparent re-engineering is said to include efficiency gains, the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and the fostering of greater social capital (Belk, 2007; Botsman & Rogers, 2010; Leismann et al., 2013).”
The “sharing” economy: labor, inequality, and social connection on for‐profit platforms (2017, background): “Russell Belk (2007, 2010, 2014), in a series of widely cited papers, has argued that by definition sharing cannot include the exchange of money and that sharing is diametrically opposed to commodity exchange (with gift exchange4 in between on a continuum).”