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What is Sharing Economy

Chapter 3
Handbook of Research on International Travel Agency and Tour Operation Management
A new economic model that uses online platforms to match offer and demand, working in a peer-to-peer logic to connect who need with who has. In this way idling assets, dead capital and latent expertise can be recirculated opening new economic opportunities, reducing waste and consumption and favouring new forms of socialization. At tourist level it opens new opportunities and solutions often more valuable and more affordable than those provided by the traditional tourist market.
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Sharing Economy and Sustainability in Tourism: New Challenges for the Tour Operators
Nunzia Borrelli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) and Monica Bernardi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8434-6.ch003
Abstract
The chapter focuses on the growing importance that the sustainability issue is gaining in tourism and on the increasing research of sustainable forms of tourism among travelers, looking to the relation with the emerging market of the sharing economy. Three streams of literature are merged: the contemporary tourists, the sustainable tourism and the sharing economy. This triangulation allows reflecting on the challenges that tours operators and in general the traditional tourism sector have to face in order to maintain their position on the market while accomplishing the sustainable goals. The analysis of three case studies, peer-to-peer platforms from South Korea, Italy, and the USA, favors the identification of some preliminary suggestions.
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Chapter 12
How Do Food Delivery Platforms Affect Urban Logistics?: The Case of Glovo in Barcelona as a Preliminary Study
Economic system that relies on the relationship between individuals to share assets or services. It can entail or not monetary transactions, and it is normally internet-based.
Published in Chapter: How Do Food Delivery Platforms Affect Urban Logistics?: The Case of Glovo in Barcelona as a Preliminary Study; From: Sharing Economy and the Impact of Collaborative Consumption
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Digital Economy, Business Models, and Cloud Computing
Sharing economy refers to an economic system where individuals (peer-to-peer) share assets or services.
Published in Chapter: Digital Economy, Business Models, and Cloud Computing; From: Global Virtual Enterprises in Cloud Computing Environments
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Advocating Entrepreneurship Education and Knowledge Management in Global Business
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Current and Future Years of E-Commerce
A socio-economic ecosystem built around the distribution, sharing and reuse of excess or unused human and physical resources.
Published in Chapter: Current and Future Years of E-Commerce; From: Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
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Why Rideshare?: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Intention to Use
Economy based on sharing underutilized possessions. Nowadays, sharing economy are aided by ITC-based technologies.
Published in Chapter: Why Rideshare?: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Intention to Use; From: Sharing Economy and the Impact of Collaborative Consumption
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Chapter 11
Electronic Word-of-Mouth in the Service Industry: An Empirical Analysis on Sharing Economy Services
An economic system, enabled by the Web 2.0, based on assets’ sharing among peers.
Published in Chapter: Electronic Word-of-Mouth in the Service Industry: An Empirical Analysis on Sharing Economy Services; From: Exploring the Power of Electronic Word-of-Mouth in the Services Industry
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Chapter 13
New Business Models for Society 5.0
At the foundation of a sharing economy are peer-to-peer (P2P) actions that acquire, share access to, or provide goods and services. A community-centric online platform is often used to facilitate connections.
Published in Chapter: New Business Models for Society 5.0; From: Internet of Behaviors Implementation in Organizational Contexts
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Chapter 6
Entrepreneurship in the Fashion Industry: The Case of Carolina Herrera
Services and assets shared between private individuals, either free or for a fee, through the internet.
Published in Chapter: Entrepreneurship in the Fashion Industry: The Case of Carolina Herrera; From: Entrepreneurial Innovation for Securing Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term Economy
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Chapter 26
Adoption of the Sharing Economy in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Developing Countries
Model of economy, where goods are provided and purchased by individuals rather than companies, most often involving some Internet application or social network.
Published in Chapter: Adoption of the Sharing Economy in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Developing Countries; From: Handbook of Research on Sustainable Tourism and Hotel Operations in Global Hypercompetition
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Multifactory: An Emerging Environment for a New Entrepreneurship
An economical paradigm based upon the opportunity and potentialities of sharing knowledge, ideas, equipments and resources.
Published in Chapter: Multifactory: An Emerging Environment for a New Entrepreneurship; From: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary Knowledge-Based Global Economy
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ICT as an Acculturative Agent and Its Role in the Tourism Context: Introduction, Acculturation Theory, Progress of the Acculturation Theory in Extant Literature
A system where personal commodities with monetary costs can be rented temporarily through technological platforms.
Published in Chapter: ICT as an Acculturative Agent and Its Role in the Tourism Context: Introduction, Acculturation Theory, Progress of the Acculturation Theory in Extant Literature; From: ICT as Innovator Between Tourism and Culture
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Cross-Cultural Study of Trust Types in Sharing Economy Organizations: Evidence From Inside Airbnb
An economic phenomena, with the help of a digital network platform, based on the transfer of using right and ownership between individuals or organizations, to maximize the usage of products and services.
Published in Chapter: Cross-Cultural Study of Trust Types in Sharing Economy Organizations: Evidence From Inside Airbnb; From: Handbook of Research on User Experience in Web 2.0 Technologies and Its Impact on Universities and Businesses
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Sharing Economy as a New Organization Model: Visualization Map Analysis and Future Research
An economic phenomena, with the help of a digital network platform, based on the transfer of using right and ownership between individuals or organizations, to maximize the usage of products and services.
Published in Chapter: Sharing Economy as a New Organization Model: Visualization Map Analysis and Future Research; From: Handbook of Research on User Experience in Web 2.0 Technologies and Its Impact on Universities and Businesses
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Chapter 15
Consumerism and Blockchain Technology: The Application of Technology to Improve Market Equalization
An economic model in which assets or services are shared between consumers in a peer-to-peer system.
Published in Chapter: Consumerism and Blockchain Technology: The Application of Technology to Improve Market Equalization; From: Confronting Security and Privacy Challenges in Digital Marketing
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Chapter 3
Smart Cars, Smart Cities, and Smart Sharing: The Changing Nature of Urban Public Spaces
An economic model based on sharing underused assets from spaces to skills to stuff, for either monetary or other types of benefits.
Published in Chapter: Smart Cars, Smart Cities, and Smart Sharing: The Changing Nature of Urban Public Spaces; From: Humanizing Cities Through Car-Free City Development and Transformation
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Digital Transformations and the Importance of Business Models for Organizations: Digital Business Models – The Key for Success in Today's Business World
All activity related to the production, consumption, and trade of goods and services in an area based on Information Technology-facilitated peer-to-peer model for commercial or non-commercial sharing of underutilized goods and service capacity through an intermediary without a transfer of ownership.
Published in Chapter: Digital Transformations and the Importance of Business Models for Organizations: Digital Business Models – The Key for Success in Today's Business World; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Transformation Management and Tools
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Flattening Relations in the Sharing Economy: A Framework to Analyze Users, Digital Platforms, and Providers
Relates to economic and technological arrangements that result from collaborative relations to share assets—products and services—through digital platforms, leading to more sustainable consumption.
Published in Chapter: Flattening Relations in the Sharing Economy: A Framework to Analyze Users, Digital Platforms, and Providers; From: Handbook of Research on the Platform Economy and the Evolution of E-Commerce
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Varieties of Sharing: Action Frameworks, Structures, and Working Conditions in a New Field
The sharing economy is regarded a distinct area of social life, which comprises social activities mediated by internet-based platforms and market places that connect suppliers and customers offering and buying a wide range of products and services through processes that operate outside the conventions of traditional business models.
Published in Chapter: Varieties of Sharing: Action Frameworks, Structures, and Working Conditions in a New Field; From: Human-Computer Interaction and Technology Integration in Modern Society
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Utilization of Online Platforms by Social Entrepreneurs for Social Sustainable Development
Is an online platform based economic behavior by all kinds of organization to accomplish organizational goals including social, ecological and economic issues. The focus is to enable an easy communication and interaction with costumers and key partners.
Published in Chapter: Utilization of Online Platforms by Social Entrepreneurs for Social Sustainable Development; From: Strategic Marketing for Social Enterprises in Developing Nations
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Sharing Economy and Applications: Business and Marketing Perspective
It refers to sharing action of things people own as a good, service, etc.
Published in Chapter: Sharing Economy and Applications: Business and Marketing Perspective; From: Networked Business Models in the Circular Economy
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Blockchain Ecosystems in the Sharing Economy: An Evaluation for the Health Services Industry
The sharing economy refers to a peer-to-peer sharing platform that enables transferring and sharing of goods/services among people and reuse of resources.
Published in Chapter: Blockchain Ecosystems in the Sharing Economy: An Evaluation for the Health Services Industry; From: Handbook of Research on Strategic Fit and Design in Business Ecosystems
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Mapping the Collaborative Platform Economy Business Practice: A Typological Study
A socioeconomic system that allows an intermediary set of exchanges of goods and services between individuals and organizations that aim to increase efficiency and optimization of underutilized resources in society.
Published in Chapter: Mapping the Collaborative Platform Economy Business Practice: A Typological Study; From: Handbook of Research on the Platform Economy and the Evolution of E-Commerce
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Chapter 1
Regulated Sharing Economy in the New Normal
Is the set of services that are competitive and complementary to the traditional economy in some areas, based on not having, but using or receiving services for the duration of the need.
Published in Chapter: Regulated Sharing Economy in the New Normal; From: Socio-Economic Effects and Recovery Efforts for the Rental Industry: Post-COVID-19 Strategies
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Chapter 1
Tourism Circular Economy: Proposal for a Research Agenda
A peer to peer model of socio-economic interaction that has extended its reach to non-members of a certain community (such as a family, group of friends, etc.) and even to physically distant people through Internet-based platforms, which allow the access (use) to goods and services with excess capacity. It is based on shared access to them instead of their ownership.
Published in Chapter: Tourism Circular Economy: Proposal for a Research Agenda; From: Mapping, Managing, and Crafting Sustainable Business Strategies for the Circular Economy
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Chapter 4
Technology and Sharing Economy-Based Business Models for Marketing to Connected Consumers
The sharing economy is an economy in which production and consumption are ensured via peer to peer collaborative consumption, shared knowledge, co-creation, co-production, prosumption, gigging, and using the technological platform, and such an economy is based on sharing the underutilised resources as collaborative consumptions with underpinned mutual trust.
Published in Chapter: Technology and Sharing Economy-Based Business Models for Marketing to Connected Consumers; From: Handbook of Research on Innovations in Technology and Marketing for the Connected Consumer
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Uberization (or Uberification) of the Economy
known also as collaborative consumption referring to peer-to-peer-based sharing of access to goods and services.
Published in Chapter: Uberization (or Uberification) of the Economy; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 14
Share or Lose: A Radical Challenge for the Traditional Economy
Systems that facilitate the sharing of underused/unused assets or services, for free or for a fee, directly between individuals or organizations.
Published in Chapter: Share or Lose: A Radical Challenge for the Traditional Economy; From: Disruptive Technology and Digital Transformation for Business and Government
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Chapter 1
A Conceptual Framework of Value Sharing in the Sharing Economy
An economic system in which tangible and intangible resources such as houses, cars, meals, and skills are shared among peers at an affordable price or free, using digital platforms.
Published in Chapter: A Conceptual Framework of Value Sharing in the Sharing Economy; From: Sharing Economy and the Impact of Collaborative Consumption
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Chapter 9
Legal and Ethical Aspects of CSR: Potential in New Business Models Development
The economy based on sharing goods rather than owning them, also called access economy to emphasize that consumers need to use products, which is possible without possessing them.
Published in Chapter: Legal and Ethical Aspects of CSR: Potential in New Business Models Development; From: Networked Business Models in the Circular Economy
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Chapter 20
The South Asian Sharing Economy: Marketing Theory and Practice
The sharing economy refers to a system where individuals connect through online platforms to take advantage of other’s resources.
Published in Chapter: The South Asian Sharing Economy: Marketing Theory and Practice; From: Handbook of Research on Stock Market Investment Practices and Portfolio Management
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