Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
6464242 Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 2017 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

•We provide a definition of the sharing economy.•We discuss the economic, environmental and social impacts of the sharing economy.•We discuss the current regulatory principles that governments apply.•We go into possible alternatives to the current commercial sharing platforms.

We develop a conceptual framework that allows us to define the sharing economy and its close cousins and we understand its sudden rise from an economic-historic perspective. We then assess the sharing economy platforms in terms of the economic, social and environmental impacts. We end with reflections on current regulations and future alternatives, and suggest a number of future research questions.

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