How to Create Value(s) in the Sharing Economy: Business Models, Scalability, and Sustainability

Acquier, Aurélien; Carbone, Valentina; Massé, David

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“…The sharing economy is one possible example of a sustainable business model, which specifically recognizes the need to leverage the idling capacity of goods and services by offering access over ownership to reduce overall consumption and resource use [23]. This can manifest in many forms of sharing, such as sharing cars, homes or power tools [4].…”

Section: Sharing Business Models-opportunities and Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Acquier et al [4] proposed an organizing framework for the sharing economy that rests upon three pillars: (1) access economy (sharing underutilized assets to optimize resource use), (2) platform economy (digital platforms creating decentralized exchanges among peers) and (3) community-based economy (coordination through "non-contractual, non-hierarchical or non-monetized forms of interaction" (p. 6). The new elements in the sharing economy, compared to simply sharing items with family, friend and neighbors, is the concerted effort through a business model, involving financial transactions and the use of digital platforms to better use idle capacity [2].…”

Section: Sharing Business Models-opportunities and Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Literature provides understanding of what "sharing" is [4,23], but little work has been done on how individual initiatives can scale up to form a viable economic system to live up to positive environmental, social and economic expectations (an exception is [42] as argued in [2]). There is a clear need for a better understanding of how sharing initiatives evolved in cities to learn from this for the future.…”

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“…The sharing economy and related business models have become prominent in the sustainability discourse [1,2]. The central idea is to optimize the use of underutilized assets (e.g., cars and apartments) by pooling or sharing them through digital platforms [3,4]. Carsharing is increasingly studied as a phenomenon in the field of sustainability [5], the sharing economy [2,6,7], and the digital revolution [8] as digital platforms (e.g., Uber, Citymapper and Mobike) have the potential to disrupt current systems of provision in relation to urban development.…”

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“…Carsharing is increasingly studied as a phenomenon in the field of sustainability [5], the sharing economy [2,6,7], and the digital revolution [8] as digital platforms (e.g., Uber, Citymapper and Mobike) have the potential to disrupt current systems of provision in relation to urban development. Carsharing is regarded as a potential lever for change to reduce car dependency, congestion and pollution in cities and to contribute to broader socioeconomic issues such as health and access to mobility [4,9]. There are high expectations on sharing cities and sharing business models as ways to drive sustainable development [9][10][11].…”

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Emergence of Carsharing Business Models and Sustainability Impacts in Swedish Cities

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The sharing economy has become prominent in the policy, business and academic discourse as a way to achieve greater levels of resource efficiency in sustainability transitions. An example is carsharing, which is regarded as a potential lever for change in sustainable mobility transitions. In this article we, apply the "ecologies of business models" perspective to investigate how carsharing initiatives have coevolved in Sweden. We focus on the city context as a useful unit of analysis to investigate carsharing in four Swedish cities: Gothenburg, Malmö, Stockholm and Umeå. Through qualitative case research, we investigate the following: How did carsharing business models coevolve in the studied cities? It was found that early notions of carsharing date back to the 1970s, but the concept has changed significantly over time, particularly with the emergence of (Internet) technology-based platforms. The findings suggest that carsharing is complementary to existing private car usage in cities, rather than a replacement. Based on this, we suggest pathways for local policymakers to consider when implementing sustainable carsharing solutions. The contributions are threefold: providing an empirical study on the theoretical ecologies of business models concept; understanding how carsharing coevolved in Swedish cities and in relation to wider sustainability and mobility trends; and giving novel insight into the role of local governments.

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Harnessing digitalization for sustainable development: Understanding how interactions on sustainability‐oriented digital platforms manage tensions and paradoxes

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In the digital age, interactions among heterogenous actors are increasingly mediated by digital platforms. While sustainability‐oriented digital platforms (SODPs) have the potential to accelerate sustainability through increased connectivity, knowledge sharing, and co‐creation, they also have a dark side, leading to unexpected tensions and paradoxical effects that may risk the creation of value for societal actors. Understanding how digital platforms can be designed to stimulate fruitful interactions among participants without succumbing to their paradoxical effects is still an unresolved puzzle. In this paper, we examine how the bright sides of SODPs can be brought to light while reducing their associated tensions and paradoxes through a qualitative study of micro‐level knowledge integration interactions on an open platform to tackle food waste. Our analysis identified 11 distinct mechanisms and 3 main interactional patterns through which participants framed the scale of the sustainability problem, mobilized resources for their solutions, and generated breadth and diversity of knowledge on the platform to tackle the problem of food waste. Our study contributes to research on SOPDs by showing how participants can take on a “distributed brokering” role through their interactions on the platform. We also provide implications to policy‐oriented practitioners regarding platform design choices to help manage known paradoxes and tensions of SOPDs.

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Social tipping and climate change: The moderating role of social capital in bridging the gap between awareness and action

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Kokthi,

López‐Bonilla

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Bridging the gap between awareness and action on environmental issues such as climate change often requires understanding the moderating roles of individual trust, institutional trust and civic engagement. This paper explores how social capital, through generalaised trust, trust in institutions and civic engagement, can either strengthen or weaken the agency on climate change on environmental behaviour. Linking climate change awareness to environmental behaviour through the mediation of perceived changes in quality of life is the chosen approach to explore the role of social capital. The results suggest that low levels of trust, whether interpersonal or institutional, reduce an individual's sense of agency by firstly reducing the impact of climate change awareness on quality of life, changing perceptions and consequently reducing environmental behaviour. Greater trust in institutions produces a stronger effect of climate change awareness on willingness to pay. On the other hand, civic engagement shows a significant effect when taxes are considered. The study suggests that the impact of social capital on environmental payments varies according to the type of payment (voluntary vs. mandatory). The mapping of the role of social capital in reducing the agency of climate change awareness in quality‐of‐life changes should be further explored, as the latter has proven to be a promising way to address climate change in developed and developing countries.

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How to Create Value(s) in the Sharing Economy: Business Models, Scalability, and Sustainability

Cited by 98 publications

References 31 publications

Emergence of Carsharing Business Models and Sustainability Impacts in Swedish Cities

Emergence of Carsharing Business Models and Sustainability Impacts in Swedish Cities

Harnessing digitalization for sustainable development: Understanding how interactions on sustainability‐oriented digital platforms manage tensions and paradoxes

Social tipping and climate change: The moderating role of social capital in bridging the gap between awareness and action

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