Upsides and downsides of the sharing economy: Collaborative consumption business models’ stakeholder value impacts and their relationship to context

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 125, Issue , 2017, Pages 87-104

  Dreyer, Betine ^a   Lüdeke Freund, Florian ^b   Hamann, Ralph ^a   Faccer, Kristy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business model innovation; Collaborative consumption; Context; Sharing economy; Stakeholder value; Two sided market

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION; COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION; CONTEXT; SHARING ECONOMY; STAKEHOLDER VALUES; TWO-SIDED MARKETS;

COMMERCE;

BUSINESS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATION; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 85018433289     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.03.036     Document Type: Article

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