Sustainability framings of accommodation sharing

Palgan, Yuliya Voytenko; Zvolska, Lucie; Mont, Oksana

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2016.12.002

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“…As a result, claims such as Airbnb [61]'s statement to be environmentally more friendly than staying at a hotel are hardly ascertainable. Quite to the opposite, it is argued that rebound effects afford additional consumption [62,63]. In a similar vein, ride-hailing companies such as Uber have promoted the idea that by reducing reliance on privately owned cars, carbon emissions in urban areas are decreasing [64].…”

Section: Corporate Social Responsibility Greenwashing and Sharewashingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, prominently claiming the promising green and social logics may cause consumers to become especially aware of the potential and actual detrimental external effects of sharing businesses [97][98][99]. This may, for example, include considerations about consumptive rebound effects [62], legal and regulatory concerns [74], the economization of formerly non-economic domains [7,39], aggravation local housing markets [100], discrimination [76,77], or the creating of a gig/sharing precariat [39]. Platforms that obviously overstate the positive aspects of their doing may thus be associated with higher risks of negative consequences.…”

Section: The Mediating Role Of Perceived Risk Of Sharing (H3)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Corporate Sharewashing Practices Undermine Consumer Trust

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Sharewashing describes a platform’s act of misleading consumers by purposely portraying an image of social and ecological principles while the platform’s business model does not necessarily involve them. Drawing on Corporate Social Responsibility and Green Marketing literature, we propose and evaluate a research model for investigating the impact of sharewashing perceptions on consumer trust. Based on survey data from 145 millennials, our results reveal a significant negative effect of sharewashing perceptions on consumer trust, partially mediated by perceptions of risk and confusion. We discuss our findings in view of their practical and strategic relevance to sharing economy platform operators.

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Section: Corporate Social Responsibility Greenwashing and Sharewashingmentioning

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Section: The Mediating Role Of Perceived Risk Of Sharing (H3)mentioning

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How Corporate Sharewashing Practices Undermine Consumer Trust

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“…al. [70] classify the sharing platforms operating in accommodation industry according to a type of exchange. They distinguish between a commercial exchange (business-to-customer exchanges), rental (peer-to-peer flats rented directly from owners or managed as timeshares), reciprocal exchanges (home swaps) and free accommodation (guests are accommodated without commercial interest).…”

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The Sharing Economy and Sustainability of Urban Destinations in the (Over)tourism Context: The Social Capital Theory Perspective

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This article contributes to the discussion on the sustainability of the sharing economy by adopting the Social Capital Theory to expand explanations of the sharing economy's role and scope of relations with local communities in the context of overtourism. As mutual relationships have not been fully recognized through a theoretical perspective, the article aims to examine the sustainability of the process of the sharing economy impacting urban tourism communities in light of Robert Putnam's approach to Social Capital Theory. On the basis of a selective systematic review, the article discusses the sustainability of the sharing economy through the lens of bridging and bonding social capital. We argue that a new configuration of social capital, i.e., a sharing platform-modified social capital, arises from the unsustainable and disruptive power of the sharing economy implemented by virtual platforms, thereby contributing to an overtourism syndrome. However, from a medium-and long-term perspective, the sharing economy also impacts the bridging nature of social capital, which should lead to a more sustainable balance in its structure. This initial framework for understanding the impact of the sharing economy on sustainability of local communities provides an alternative approach to studying residents' perceptions and attitudes towards tourism in the areas affected by overtourism.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2310 2 of 26 human and economic activity, strongly emphasizing its presence in the tourism industry, especially in accommodation, transport, catering and tourism experiences [19,20]. As the SE's impact is widely discussed through the prism of accommodation platforms [20][21][22][23] we mostly consider this sector of the tourism industry. Overtourism, in turn, is a place-specific and industry-related mechanism. As a temporary and 'explosive' phenomenon, it condenses all the aspects of visitors' activity and the tourism industry in affected destinations, including the experiences or services distributed or accessed by sharing. Thus, when these two phenomena are studied together, we can discuss tourism as a domain of the SE, and the 'sharing' aspects of overtourism.Yet, due to an early phase of their evolution and the eruptive nature of their expansion, mutual relationships of both phenomena have not been fully recognized, leaving a gap for further research. Even so, many researchers claim that the SE contributes to overtourism by jointly pushing urban gentrification processes, depopulation of city centers and other processes of social exclusion [3,[24][25][26][27][28]. In light of this, in this article we consider overtourism in the context of studying the impact of the SE expansion on local communities. The emerging overtourism syndrome may be one of first striking examples of the problems in which the SE is directly involved. Thus, the externalities resulting from the SE in (over)tourism context on the community level could be a laboratory for SE's influence in general.Although sustainability issues involving the SE have...

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“…Tangible Resources: Products that represent tangible resources have been considered mostly in the context of free transactions in online communities (Geigerr, Horbel and Germelmann, 2017;McArthur, 2015;Hong and Vicdan, 2016;Huber, 2017;Voytenko Palgan, Zvolska, and Mont, 2017). Free sharing encourages the increase of users' demand for used products and reduces the consumption volume of new ones (Binninger, Ourahmoune, and Robert, 2015;Barness and Mattsson, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unlike AirBnb apartments, the exchange of homes is performed under the condition of resource availability rather than monetary compensation. While the economic value of the resource is arguably a motivational factor, the practices are framed as social movements (Forno and Garibaldi, 2015;van Nuenen, 2016;Voytenko Palgan, Zvolska, and Mont, 2017). The home represents the venue reconciling hosts and guests, putting guests into the local cultural context, thus turning a stranger into an insider in the community (van Nuenen, 2016).…”

Section: Intangible Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping the economics, social and technological attributes of the sharing economy

Davlembayeva

Papagiannidis

Alamanos

2019

ITP

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Purpose:The sharing economy is a socio-economic system in which individuals acquire and distribute goods and services among each other for free or for compensation through Internet platforms. The sharing economy has attracted the interest of the academic community, which examined the phenomenon from the economic, social and technological perspectives.Design: Given the lack of an overarching analysis of the sharing economy, this paper employs a quantitative content analysis approach to explore and synthesise relevant findings to facilitate the understanding of this emerging phenomenon. Findings:The paper identified and grouped findings under four themes, namely: collaborative consumption practices, resources, drivers of user engagement and impacts, each of which is discussed in relation to the three main themes, aiming to compare findings and then put forward an agenda for further research.Originality/value: The paper offers a balanced analysis of the building blocks of the sharing economy, to identify emerging themes within each stream, to discuss any contextual differences from a multi-stakeholder perspective and to propose directions for future studies.

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Sustainability framings of accommodation sharing

Cited by 94 publications

References 17 publications

How Corporate Sharewashing Practices Undermine Consumer Trust

How Corporate Sharewashing Practices Undermine Consumer Trust

The Sharing Economy and Sustainability of Urban Destinations in the (Over)tourism Context: The Social Capital Theory Perspective

Mapping the economics, social and technological attributes of the sharing economy

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