Clarifying the Sharing Economy: Conceptualization, Typology, Antecedents, and Effects
整合了共享经济的现有知识,澄清了其概念,并开发了共享经济组织的类型学,同时梳理了前因与影响,为未来研究指明方向。
In the past decade, we have seen a spectacular increase in the number of companies described as being part of the “sharing economy.” The emerging academic research on the topic reflects the importance and the far-reaching implications of this phenomenon but also demonstrates a lack of conceptual clarity about what the sharing economy represents. By addressing the main conceptual tensions that exist in this field, our paper integrates the body of knowledge on the sharing economy, clarifies the concept, and develops a typology of sharing-economy organizations. We map out the antecedents and effects of the sharing economy, identifying empirical research that has been done at the consumer, provider, and platform levels of analysis, and develop avenues for future research.