“…journals were identified through a keyword search for “collaborative consumption”, “marketing”, and “sharing economy” on Google Scholar and segmented according to themes using an inductive thematic analysis by the author) shows that, to date, research has shed light on: - The typologies of sharing (e.g. through access, collaboration, and community for access/club, closed commercial, open commercial, and public goods sharing in business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer, consumer-to-business, business-to-business, and government-to-consumer market structures across myriad industries such as consumer goods, entertainment and media, energy and utilities, food, hospitality, and mobility and transport, with new intermediaries emerging such as commodity intermediary, wealth redistributor, unique-service intermediary, skill redistributor, and decentralised commodity intermediary) (see Acquier et al, 2017; Belk, 2010, 2014a, 2014b; Fernandes et al, 2020; Gruszka, 2017; Habibi et al, 2016, 2017; Lamberton and Rose, 2012; Mair and Reischauer, 2017; Plewnia and Guenther, 2018; Richardson, 2015; Wittel, 2011);
- The market segmentation for a “sharing” business (e.g. mobility-focused sharer, diverse-platform sharer, power-platform sharer, sharing idealists, sharing opponents, sharing pragmatists, and sharing normatives) (see Davidson et al, 2018; Hellwig et al, 2015; Sands et al, 2020);
- The goals of sharing and participating in the sharing economy (e.g.
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