Studying the Effects of Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy Platforms on Society

Studying the Effects of Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy Platforms on Society

Westerbeek, J. (KWINK Group)
Ubacht, J. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)
van der Voort, H.G. (TU Delft Organisation and Governance)
ten Heuvelhof, E.F. (TU Delft Organisation and Governance)

Scholl, Hans Jochem (editor)
Glassey, Olivier (editor)
Janssen, Marijn (editor)
Klievink, Bram (editor)
Lindgren, Ida (editor)
Parycek, Peter (editor)
Tambouris, Efthimios (editor)
Wimmer, Maria (editor)
Janowski, Tomasz (editor)
Sa Soares, Delfina (editor)

2016

Peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms potentially have big effects on values in society. Policymakers need to develop governance arrangements to benefit from the positive effects, while simultaneously mitigate the negative effects. This requires having a structured overview of the effects of these platforms on the diversity of values that are involved. Currently no theoretical overview of these effects on values is available. The objective of this article is to structure the research into the effects of sharing economy platforms. We use a theoretical mapping that was developed by using a Grounded Theory approach. By positioning the literature onto the map, we derived an overview of the extend in which each effected value has been studied so far. Based on this mapping, we propose five research themes into specific effects of peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms: social values, consumer and societal risks, working conditions and labor market dynamics, environmental sustainability and innovation.

Sharing economy
Peer-to-peer platform
P2P
Values
Effects
Grounded Theory
Governance arrangement
Literature Review

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0900efc3-416b-457d-a1cb-dd5708f68df4

https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-670-5-222

IOS Press, Amsterdam

978-1-61499-428-2

Proceedings of Electronic Government and Electronic Participation

IFIP eGOV and ePART 2016, 2016-09-05 → 2016-09-08, United Nations University and University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2016 J. Westerbeek, J. Ubacht, H.G. van der Voort, E.F. ten Heuvelhof