A decade of the sharing economy: Concepts, users, business and governance perspectives

By O. Mont, Y. Palgan, K. Bradley, Lucie Zvolska. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020

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Sharing economy platforms have been transforming production and consumption systems in cities around the world. While the sharing economy may contribute to addressing sustainability issues, its actual economic, social and environmental impacts remain poorly understood. Advancing more sustainably promising forms of sharing and leveraging its benefits, while circumventing its pitfalls, is becoming increasingly important in the era of Covid-19 and climate crisis, economic downturn and uncertainty, and loss of social connectedness, particularly in anonymous urban environments. The ways to capitalise on strengths of the sharing economy are still poorly understood. In particular, the roles and perspectives of users, businesses and municipal governments in institutionalising the sharing economy in various geographical contexts are essential to examine. This volume seeks to advance the research field by focusing on four research areas: 1) understanding the sharing economy conceptually; 2) user perspectives on the sharing economy; 3) business perspective on the sharing economy; and 4) urban governance perspective on the sharing economy. The twenty articles in this volume discuss sustainability implications of the sharing economy from different perspectives, in various geographical contexts, and drawing on a range of disciplines. The volume makes a significant contribution by bringing in empirical findings from emerging and developing economies, including Brazil, China, Indonesia, Poland, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam, thereby supplementing more frequently discussed perspectives from high-income countries. The volume also outlines the course for future research.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Koen Frenken
2. Marko P. Hekkert
3. Julian Kirchherr

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1. Julian Kirchherr
2. Marko P. Hekkert
3. F. Marimon
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4. Nancy M. P. Bocken
5. Julian Kirchherr
6. M. Henry

Citations in the corpus

• The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts (2021, background): “M. Henry et al. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 38 (2021) 1–21 6 primarily, a market exchange mediated by (digital) platforms to enable temporary access to under-utilized (‘idle’) resources (see Curtis, Mont, 2020; Frenken and Schor, 2017; acc. to Polanyi, 1957).”
• A Systematic Literature Review. Relationships between the Sharing Economy, Sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals (2020, background): “However, the impact of the sharing economy in the triple dimension of sustainability is not clear [4].”