Crises and the Sharing Economy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The manifold crises that affect(ed) several industries, sectors, and markets have pave(d) new avenues (of research) in the field of the sharing/collaborative* economy, with B2B, B2C, and P2P perspectives.
Crises are opening up new opportunities and threats, and acting as game-changing triggers in terms of stakeholders’ behaviour, disruptive rise of platforms and business model innovation.
Economic, social and political crises are generally intertwined with natural/environmental disasters—e.g., in the case of COVID-19—, thus putting the key role of (economic, social, and environmental) sustainability into the foreground in many industries (tourism, transport, health, education, etc.).
While facing such crises, policy-makers, platforms and users are still striving to solve the governance, policy, and regulatory issues related to the collaborative economy as well as striving to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to improve the success/survival rate of collaborative economy platforms, all of which are being attempted by means of new business models, digitization, and emerging, data-driven technologies (e.g. IoT, Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence).
All these considerations guide the proposal of this Special Issue, which aims to collect (quantitative/qualitative) empirical and theoretical research contributions on how (economic, natural/environmental, political, and social) crises have affected the manifold plethora of actors connected to the sharing economy and its collaborative platforms. Scientific contributions will be accepted in the areas of (but not limited to):
- Management strategies to face crises affecting the sharing economy;
- Behavioural changes in collaborative consumption;
- Trends and challenges in the environmental and economic sustainability of sharing economy platforms;
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the sharing economy;
- Governance, policy, and regulation issues in the sharing economy;
- Disruptions and business model innovation in the sharing economy;
- Technology- and data-driven impacts on collaborative economy platforms;
- Emerging opportunities in the sharing economy.
* In this document, sharing and collaborative economy are intended to be understood synonymously.
Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Corvello
Dr. Carlo Giglio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sharing economy
- collaborative economy
- collaborative consumption
- behavioural analysis
- environmental sustainability
- economic sustainability
- business model innovation
- circular economy
- sustainable development goals (SDGs)
- COVID-19
- governance of sharing economy platforms
- policies and regulatory frameworks for the sharing economy
- data science in the sharing economy
- digitization
- emerging technologies
- internet of Things
- blockchain
- cryptocurrencies
- artificial intelligence
- online/offline platforms
- platform ecosystems
- platform orchestration
- economic crises
- natural disasters
- political crises
- social crises
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