Rise of the Sharing Economy

Pia A. Albinsson, PhD, is associate professor of marketing and currently holds the John W. Guffey Jr. Professorship in the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University. B. Yasanthi Perera, PhD, is assistant professor of business ethics at Brock University. Her research focuses on social responsibility.

• Foreword: The Sharing EconomyRussell BelkPart One The Sharing Economy: How Did We Arrive Here?Chapter 1 Introduction: Sharing in Modern SocietiesB. Yasanthi Perera and Pia A. AlbinssonChapter 2 Precursors to the Sharing Economy: CooperativesIsobel M. FindlayChapter 3 When Sharing Was a Necessity: A Historical Perspective of Collaborative Consumption in East GermanyMarco Wolf and Wendy RitzChapter 4 Societal Factors and the Emergence of the Sharing EconomyKatharina Hellwig, Marlyne Sahakian, and Felicitas MorhartPart Two Technology: A Facilitator of Modern-Day SharingChapter 5 Online Technology as a Driver of SharingJohn Harvey, Andrew Smith, and David GolightlyChapter 6 Mapping the Collaborative Economy Landscape and Its Relationship with Information and Communication TechnologiesAndreas Kamilaris and Francesc X. Prenafeta-BoldúChapter 7 The Economics of Peer-to-Peer Online SharingTimm Teubner and Florian HawlitschekPart Three Collaborative Consumption: Peer-to-Peer Engagements in the Sharing EconomyChapter 8 The Rise and Fall of Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Consumption: A Perspective from Two Types of Collaborative Consumption PracticesHeather E. Philip, Lucie K. Ozanne, and Paul W. BallantineChapter 9 Access-Based Consumption: From Ownership to Non-Ownership of ClothingPia A. Albinsson and B. Yasanthi PereraPart Four The Sharing Economy in Relation to the Marketplace and the GovernmentChapter 10 Commercial Sharing 2.0: Business Opportunities in a Maturing MarketplaceCait LambertonChapter 11 The Role of Governments in Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Collaborative ConsumptionFriedrich ChasinChapter 12 On Sharing and Quasi-Sharing: The Tension between Sharing-Economy Practices, Public Policy, and RegulationSofia RanchordásAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex