What is Snowball Method

Although the sharing economy's commercial practice is booming, the study on the formation mechanism is fragmented. This chapter captures a whole picture of sharing economy's research and gives suggestions for future interesting studies. Based on the method of the Prisma protocol for systematic literature review, with the help of CiteSpace software, the authors map out the structure of existing literature. Current research found out that sharing economy as a new organization model is the current developing trend, sharing economy could be a strong method in the organization's management area. The definition of sharing economy can be included as a new economic phenomenon based on the internet, including peer-to-peer-based activities of obtaining, giving, or sharing the access to goods and services to maximize the utilization. This chapter concluded the connotation of sharing economy, based on the resource view, property right view, and technique view, and several future research plans are generated.