You are what you can access: Sharing and collaborative consumption online

Belk, Russell W.

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.10.001

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“…We apply an inclusive perspective on the sharing economy using sharing economy as an umbrella term for various types of sharing models. In a broad understanding, the sharing economy is about business models aiming to provide convenient and costeffective access to underutilised or redundant resources facilitated by digital platforms (Bardhi and Eckhardt 2012;Belk 2014;Eckhardt and Bardhi 2015;Matzler et al 2014). The focus on underutilised and redundant resources represents the basis for the green discourse around the sharing economy.…”

Section: Green Promises Of the Sharing Economymentioning

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Green entrepreneurship in the sharing economy: utilising multiplicity of institutional logics

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The green potential of the sharing economy to exploit underutilised or redundant resources has generated a considerable interest and expectations on the part of government institutions, investors and consumers. Alongside the emerging green logic, more established economic and social logics appear to be critical for growth of sharing platforms. Applying an institutional logics approach, this paper investigates how entrepreneurial teams in the sharing economy deal with this complexity of expectations of various constituents and institutions. Based on 30 semi-structured interviews with founders and executives of UK sharing platforms, we examine the strategies used by entrepreneurial teams to utilise and combine the green logic with other institutional logics present. The results demonstrate that sharing platforms are able to grow via utilising the green logic together with the economic and social logics in a flexible manner, applying complexity reducing and complexity absorbing strategies as well as temporal adjustments in the use of logics.

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Section: Green Promises Of the Sharing Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on the ongoing discussion of sharing economy models (e.g. Frenken et al 2015;Belk 2014;Bardhi and Eckhardt 2012;Mont 2002;Schor 2015;Frei 2005;Nesta and TSR 2015;Dervojeda et al 2013;PWC 2015;Matzler et al 2014;Grinevich et al 2015), we separate between the following types of sharing:…”

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Green entrepreneurship in the sharing economy: utilising multiplicity of institutional logics

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“…A highly cited paper by Belk (2014), on the other hand, contests the claims of Bardhi and Eckhardt, arguing that "access-based consumption" is only a subset of collaborative consumption, which is "people coordinating the acquisition and distribution of a resource for a fee or other compensation" (Belk 2014(Belk , 1597. This definition, in contrast to Botsman and Rogers (2010), excludes gift-giving or sharing without any form of compensation.…”

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“…3 However, Warsaw is smaller and also relatively less visited by tourists than the other cities mentioned: according to Eurostat, the number of nights spent in a tourist accommodation establishment per resident was 2.8 in Warsaw, 4.6 in Budapest and 8.4 in Berlin in 2014. 4 Regarding the type of accommodation, 76.9% of listings are entire homes, around every fifth listing is a private room (21%) and just 2.1% are shared rooms. These proportions reveal that the overwhelming majority of offers concern the rental of entire flats and apartments.…”

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Airbnb and the Hotel Industry in Warsaw: An Example of the Sharing Economy?

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2017

Central European Economic Journal

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Abstract:The aim of this analysis is to examine the characteristics of the Airbnb network, to verify the share of Airbnb offers that belong to the sharing economy and to identify the differences between the spatial distribution of the Airbnb network and the traditional hotel industry. The article is based on a unique dataset of web-scraped data on Airbnb listings in Warsaw (Poland), combined with district-level official statistics on the hotel industry. The analysis shows that only approximately 11% of offers belong to the sharing economy ("individuals granting each other temporary access to their under-utilised assets"), while at least one third of offers are provided by professional firms. The Airbnb network shows a strong centre-periphery pattern, with 75% of offers located within a range of 4.3 kilometres from the centre. The spatial concentration of Airbnb offers is strongly driven by their distance from metro lines, while it is weakly related to the amount of living space. On the district-level, the spatial distribution of Airbnb listings is correlated with that of the hotel industry, although Airbnb contributes to a more even spread of tourism in the city. The major contribution of this analysis is its presentation of the size and characteristics of the platform, which is essential for data-driven policy making.

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“…Instead of owning goods, this economic model capitalizes on social interaction through online networking to enable access to shared goods (Belk, 2014). Also known as "collaborative consumption," the concept of optimizing the use of existing assets and reducing costs has gained traction as a method for improving the sustainability of the current economic system (Ballús-Armet et al, 2014).…”

Section: Sharing Economy More Broadlymentioning

confidence: 99%