Digital entrepreneurs in the sharing economy

Leick, Birgit; Eklund, Mehtap Aldogan; Kivedal, Bjørnar Karlsen

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“…This article uses the concept of secondary tourist destinations (Tsogas et al, 2019) to frame destinations that are no mainstream targets for national or international travellers and differentiate them from primary destinations. Secondary tourist destinations host threshold-level activities in tourism and hospitality because of highly visited tourist sites (Leick et al, 2020) or existing niche markets that can be developed (Choomgrant and Sukharomana, 2017). In such regional contexts, Airbnb-based tourism may spur tourism in general and, indirectly, foster the development of traditional accommodation (hotels, pensions, bed and breakfast pensions (B&Bs), camping sites, cabins, etc.)…”

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Exploring the relationship between Airbnb and traditional accommodation for regional variations of tourism markets

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The relationship between Airbnb-based and traditional accommodation is mainly documented for key tourist destinations with a large tourism sector, while there is almost no evidence on this for other destinations. This article focuses on regional variations in the relationship between Airbnb-based and traditional accommodation across primary and secondary tourist destinations in Norway. Through an exploratory cluster analysis and a panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model with forecast error decomposition of shocks (unobserved effects), it finds evidence of spillovers from Airbnb-based accommodation to traditional accommodation in secondary destinations. The demand for traditional accommodation is positively affected by Airbnb demand in the long run. Interestingly, a smaller effect is found with the supply-side of regional tourism markets in the Norwegian secondary tourist destinations. The growth of Airbnb may, thus, spur growth in the general tourism sector in such less frequented destinations.

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“…For instance, Vinogradov et al (2021) believes that only creating novel sharing-economy platforms is digital entrepreneurs. Beyond this, Sussan and Acs (2017), Srinivasan and Venkatraman (2018) and Leick et al (2020) believe that the providers of sharing economy services also should be seen as digital entrepreneurs. We adopt the definition of Sussan and Acs (2017) that regard hosts in sharing accommodation platforms as digital entrepreneurs.…”

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“…Digital entrepreneurship is distinct from traditional entrepreneurship in terms of products, marketing activities, workplaces and business purposes (Delacroix et al , 2019), making it an emerging issue (Richter et al , 2017; Leick et al , 2020). Popularity information has become a key market response and intangible asset in digital economy (Chaffey and Ellis-Chadwick, 2019; Yan et al , 2021).…”

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More popular, more listings? Effects of popularity on Airbnb host expansion

Tang

Lyu

2023

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Purpose Sharing accommodation has lowered the threshold for digital entrepreneurship in the accommodation industry, prompting entrepreneurs to join this industry. However, digital micro-entrepreneurs have been ignored by previous studies. To bridge the gap, this study aims to explore the impact of reputational asset (host popularity) and host’s human capital (entrepreneurial entry speed and managerial seniority) on host expansion grounded on the resource-based theory. Design/methodology/approach This study obtained crawler data by python from Airbnb.com, locking the time range to the past five years from 2013 to 2018 in Beijing of China. This study finally has 348 hosts’ balanced panel data to estimate the ordinary least squares regression model with fixed-year effect. Findings Results demonstrate that host popularity has a significant positive effect on host expansion. Furthermore, entrepreneurial entry speed strengthens the positive effect of host popularity on host expansion, whereas managerial seniority weakens the positive effect. The three-way interaction analysis reveals that the positive impact of host popularity on host expansion is strongest when managerial seniority is smaller and entrepreneurial entry speed is faster. Research limitations/implications The research has important implications to how the platforms interfere with the implementation of host expansion strategy and adds valuable insights to understand the transformation process of host expansion from nonprofessional to professional. Originality/value The research has expanded the literature related to the micro-entrepreneurship of the sharing economy and verified the application of resource-based theory under sharing economy.

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“…Despite positive rhetoric, the se's 'dark side' has received increasing attention (Frenken & schor, 2017;Frenken et al, 2019). the normative character of the concept has raised discussions about the true nature of sharing and the misuse of the concept (Belk, 2014), for example, in discussions about the competition between airbnb and traditional forms of accommodation (leick et al, 2020;strømmen-Bakhtiar & Vinogradov, 2019). the sharing economy is often described as a case of 'sharewashing' , whereby 'the language of sharing is used to promote new modes of selling ' (light & Miskelly, 2015, p. 49), even though the business model more closely resembles that of traditional market firms (Muñoz & cohen, 2018).…”

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The role of legitimation and delegitimation in new path development in tourism

Sagheim

2022

Tourism Geographies

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the development of the tourism industry in regional contexts has attracted significant interest from tourism geographers, in which the evolutionary economic geography (eeG) approach has been of interest over the last decade. Recent research on eeG has emphasised the role of institutions and particularly legitimacy in new path development, claiming that legitimacy is crucial for the development of emerging industries. against this backdrop, this paper explores the role of legitimation and delegitimation in the development of the sharing economy in innlandet, a tourism region in Norway. the article poses two research questions. how is the legitimacy of airbnb expressed by key tourism stakeholders in a tourism region in Norway? Moreover, how can the shifting roles of legitimation and delegitimation among key stakeholders in the tourism industry inform the literature on new path development? these issues are explored in qualitative interviews with respondents from four key tourism stakeholder groups: consumers, airbnb hosts, incumbent firms, and regional industry and policy actors. the findings reveal legitimacy issues mainly related to regulatory and normative ambiguities, described by biased regulations that result in economic leakages to other regions and countries and concerns about decreasing local value creation in the region. these findings indicate that the sharing economy lacks legitimacy among the stakeholders. the article concerns the role of legitimation and delegitimation in new path development processes, arguing that delegitimation prevents transformative changes and path development processes.

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Digital entrepreneurs in the sharing economy

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Exploring the relationship between Airbnb and traditional accommodation for regional variations of tourism markets

Exploring the relationship between Airbnb and traditional accommodation for regional variations of tourism markets

More popular, more listings? Effects of popularity on Airbnb host expansion

The role of legitimation and delegitimation in new path development in tourism

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