Sharing cities and sustainable consumption and production: towards an integrated framework

By Boyd Cohen, P. Muñoz. 2016

319 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Calls for a transformation towards more sustainable consumption and production (SCP) have been intensifying. As urban populations swell across the planet, cities are faced with increasing pressure on infrastructure, economic and ecological systems. Yet, with their high population densities and ubiquity of information and communication technologies, cities are becoming breeding grounds for a new, circular economy driven by emerging and long-standing sharing activities. This research provides a comprehensive view of SCP systems in cities by integrating and examining sharing economy activities in the context of two continuums, i.e. SCP and private/public orientation. Based on these two analytical dimensions, the paper evaluates and plots five groups of 18 sharing activities to create a Sharing Cities-SCP Typology comprised by five ideal types. Each of these five types represents a unique form of SCP activity, with the potential to directly impact SCP systems in the context of urban environments. By enabling diversity and hybridity in the SCP analysis, we allow for a theoretical expansion of SCP models and a new way of understanding how they may play out in cities.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Building and Construction, Marketing

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In Automotive Engineering

1. P. Muñoz
2. Boyd Cohen
3. S. Curtis
4. Matthias Lehner
5. Federico Biagi
6. Cristiano Codagnone
7. Fabienne Abadie

In Building and Construction

1. P. Muñoz
2. Boyd Cohen
3. S. Curtis
4. Matthias Lehner

In Marketing

1. P. Muñoz
2. Boyd Cohen
3. S. Curtis
4. Matthias Lehner
5. Ruth Carrasco-Gallego
6. Gustavo Morales-Alonso
7. Meisam Ranjbari
8. Federico Biagi

Citations in the corpus

• Green entrepreneurship in the sharing economy: utilising multiplicity of institutional logics (2019, background): “There has been an increasing interest in the emerging sharing economy phenomenon (associated with companies such as Airbnb, Uber, Blablacar, Peerby, among others) and its green credentials (Cohen and Kietzmann 2014; Cohen and Munoz 2016; Martin 2016; Martin and Shaheen 2010; Schor 2014a, b).”
• Conceptualizing the Sharing Economy through Presenting a Comprehensive Framework (2018, background): “As abovementioned, different definitions and frameworks have been proposed for the SE, which shows the variety in the interpretations regarding what the SE is and what it can and cannot do [90].”
• Enabling Value Co-Creation in the Sharing Economy: The Case of Mobike (2017, background): “Traditionally, consumption and production systems have been treated as discrete streams [12].”
• The Passions and the Interests: Unpacking the 'Sharing Economy' (2016, background): “A few typologies have been presented for the ‘sharing economy’ as whole (i.e. Lamberton and Rose 2012; Cohen & Muñoz, 2015; Schor, 2014) xxii, and there are also industry-based sectoral categorisations (i.e. Owyang, et al., 2014; VB Profiles & Crowd Companies, 2015; PIPAME, 2015; see illustration…”
• Defining the Sharing Economy for Sustainability (2019, background): “Firstly, sharing of space is described widely in literature as a room [11,87,88], apartment [73,88], home [106,114,134], accommodation [24,135], office [74,103] or parking spot [136].”