Although sharing has for a long time been a well-established principle to deal with resource shortages on a private level, the important impact of establishing sharing as business principle has only recently been highlighted by business practice as well as research. Sharing can be considered a...

The concept of digitalization has become a common practice for adoption and integration across the economy in recent years. The rapid prospects of a spillover from digitalization quickly became the interest of countries and researchers, especially in the interest of sustainable development based...

Sharing economy online labor platforms play a critical role in bringing together freelancers and potential employers. This research is one of the few studies to address how freelancers' characteristics impact the likelihood of being hired by employers using the theory of person-environment fit...

One of the most intriguing recent development is in blockchain, which has the potential to make collaborative economies safer by securing transactions and contracts. This makes it one of the most exciting recent improvements in IoT. The use of smart contracts in an Internet of Things environment...

Mainstream arguments refer to gig work platforms such as ride-hailing, online taxis, and home-sharing as sharing economy platforms. However, this designation is philosophically just a paradox because there is no “true sharing economy” in the gig work platform business model. This paper...

This study applies the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method to develop a House of Quality (HoQ) framework for the Collaborative Apparel Consumption (CAC) business. The framework integrates inputs from customers and industry professionals to assess customer requirements and business goal...

Globally, sustainable development goals (SDGs), which need to be achieved using the sharing economy, are the focus of many recent studies. This article investigates the impact of sharing economy features such as core competence and resources on achieving SDGs in the tourism industry in the BRICS...

Globally, the sharing economy is considered a significant factor in achieving energy efficiency and sustainable economic development (SED) which needs regulatory and academic focus. This article investigates the impact of the sharing economy, including sharing economy users and sharing economy...

Globally, the barriers to the sharing economy are significant. They present a hurdle to attaining sustainable development goals (SDGs) and require the focus of policymakers and researchers. Hence, this article investigates the influence of removing economic, social and technical barriers on the...

Recently, the sharing economy has become a significant factor in sustainable economic development (SED), and green energy plays a role in this regard, a phenomenon which requires researchers' frequent emphasis. Thus, the present research investigates the impact of a sharing economy (sharing...

Sustainable development goals (SDGs) are the foremost requirement of the entire world, and a sharing economy is potentially the best way to achieve them, a phenomenon which needs to be emphasized. This study empirically investigates the impact of the environmental, social and economic benefits...

Achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) through a sharing economy is a global concern which requires policymakers and researchers' attention. The improvement of sharing economy activities may increase sustainable development in developing economies. Thus, this study empirically examines...

Recently, energy efficiency and the sharing economy have become significant factors for sustainable economic development (SED), which require the attention of researchers and policymakers. Thus, the present research investigates the impact of energy efficiency and the sharing economy on SED in...

The adoption of the sharing economy by organizations is of central importance to energy efficiency. However, previous studies ignore the role of user adoption of the sharing economy. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the role of energy efficiency through user adoption of...

Changes over the last few decades around the globe highlight concepts such as sustainable economic development (SED). Globalization has accelerated the competition between firms and they require sustainable development (SD) in order to survive in such a competitive environment. In this scenario,...

The impact of the sharing economy has become increasingly prominent in facilitating sustainable economic growth. The current study examined this relationship in the context of emerging markets. It addressed the influence of income inequality on restricting the expected benefits from activities...

The sharing economy is a relatively recent phenomenon that aims to promote environmentally friendly practices. The sharing economy is characterized by the convergence of information, marketing and technology to create a new paradigm in which customers value access above ownership, allowing them...

This study considers the relationship of the tour operators to the tourism platform services in the context of a COVID-19 post-pandemic recovery. The findings are based on semi-structured interviews with representatives of Slovak tour operators' businesses. The results show that the platform...

Aim/purpose - This study aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peer-to-peer accommodation (P2PA), investigate the potential factors related to organizational resilience based on resilience resources and consumer threat response frameworks, and revisit the tourism disaster...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing marketplaces enable sharing of idle resources. When a renter requests an owner's resource, the owner needs to decide whether to accept the request: accepting it helps him fill up the idle periods of the resource and generate a payoff, but reduces the flexibility to...

Data-driven markets depend on access to data as a resource for products and services. Since the quality of information that can be drawn from data increases with the available amount and quality of the data, businesses involved in the data economy have a great interest in accessing data from...

This open access book considers the development of the sharing and collaborative economy with a European focus, mapping across economic sectors, and country-specific case studies. It looks at the roles the sharing economy plays in sharing and redistribution of goods and services across the...

The chapter is the final one in the volume of collected papers aiming to discuss the sharing economy in Europe. The idea of the book emerged within the research network created by the COST Action CA16121 ‘From Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative...

This chapter explains the rationale behind the book. It provides basic definitions of the concept of the sharing economy as well as the primary meanings related to the subject of the analysis undertaken in the subsequent chapters. This Introduction also includes a description of the main...

Technological advances such as smartphones, mobile applications, and online platforms have enabled a new form of economy, known as a gig economy, at a large scale, in which there is a free-market system allowing organizations (job providers) to hire independent contractors (job seeker). Unlike...

The ride-hailing platform offers the business model of the on-demand business ecosystem in the era of the sharing economy. Platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DiDi have become popular worldwide and established a strong position in urban transportation. This paper presents a case study analyzing...