The sharing economy: Friend or foe?Show others and affiliations
2015 (English)In: ICIS 2015 Proceedings, 2015Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The sharing economy is spreading rapidly worldwide in a number of industries and markets. The disruptive nature of this phenomenon has drawn mixed responses ranging from active conflict to adoption and assimilation. Yet, in spite of the growing attention to the sharing economy, we still do not know much about it. With the abundant enthusiasm about the benefits that the sharing economy can unleash and the weekly reminders about its dark side, further examination is required to determine the potential of the sharing economy while mitigating its undesirable side effects. The panel will join the ongoing debate about the sharing economy and contribute to the discourse with insights about how digital technologies are critical in shaping this turbulent ecosystem. Furthermore, we will define an agenda for future research on the sharing economy as it becomes part of the mainstream society as well as part of the IS research repertoire.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015.
Keywords [en]
Collaborative economy, Collaborative platforms, Collaborative technologies, Disruptive innovation, Economic impact, Sharing economy, Social impact, Information systems, Collaborative platform, Disruptive innovations, Economic impacts, Economic and social effects
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-37075Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84964680268ISBN: 978-0-9966831-1-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-37075DiVA, id: diva2:1281145
Conference
36th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2015), December 13-16, 2015, Fort Worth, US
2019-01-212019-01-212019-08-12Bibliographically approved