[AISWorld] Call for Contribution - 5th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy

[Manuel Trenz]

Call for Contribution

 

5th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy

‘Sharing Theories and Insights’

 

June 28th to 29th, 2018, University of Mannheim, Germany

Submission deadline: March 31st, 2018

 

Sharing instead of owning is one of the major trends in modern (business)
life (Belk, 2007, Botsman & Rogers, 2011). By changing how people consume,
the rise of the sharing economy has the potential to redefine the role of
owners, consumers and producers, change their mode of transaction, create
innovative business models, disrupt existing industries and challenge
political as well as regulative institutions (e.g. Lamberton & Rose, 2012;
Matzler, Veider & Kathan, 2015; Acquier, Daudigeos, & Pinkse, 2017). Besides
these practical implications, the sharing economy phenomenon represents a
novel playground for theoretical advancement attracting a multitude of
research and researchers from different disciplines. While this can
potentially open up new ways for practice and theory to stimulate each
other, they do not seem to go hand in hand at the moment (Cohen & Kietzmann,
2014; Belk, 2014). On the one hand, scholars complain that theoretical
insights are lagging behind public discourse and practice. On the other
hand, much research does not build on existing theories but rather remains
descriptive and anecdotal (Murillo, Buckland & Val, 2017).

 

Despite the undisputed progress in better understanding the sharing economy
by mapping and systematizing different application areas, market
orientations or types of consumption (e.g. Botsman & Rogers, 2011; Sacks,
2011; Schor, 2014; Owyang, 2016) there is still a long way to go before we
can close the gap between practical and theoretical development in the
sharing economy. Hence, our aim is to bring together research and
researchers from a wide variety of theoretical backgrounds and disciplines
to encourage academic discourse on theorizing the sharing economy phenomenon
by addressing the following questions:

§ How can existing theories and disciplines inform research in the sharing
economy to better understand the practical phenomenon?

§ How can practical development in the sharing economy stimulate existing
theories and trigger theory development?

§ How can contributions from different disciplines contribute to develop a
holistic picture of the sharing economy?

 

Perspectives and Research Questions

We invite project and paper contributions that are grounded in different
disciplines and theoretical perspectives, including organization theory,
strategic management, information systems, political science, sociology,
cultural studies, psychology, legal studies, economic geography, business
history and others. Contributions can be conceptual, methodological or
empirical and may include (but are not limited to) the following aspects and
questions:

§ From an organization theory perspective: What are the new forms of
organizing and coordinating sharing, bartering or lending? How can
organizations deal with blurred

organizational boundaries and shifting roles between owners, consumers and
producers?

§ From a strategic perspective: How do business entrepreneurs as well as
established companies create and discover opportunities in the sharing
economy? What are the types and components of business models in the sharing
economy? What are the implications for competitive strategies?

§ From an information technology perspective: What are socio-technical
enablers and constraints of the sharing economy? How are online data
captured and used for value creation? How can data security and privacy be
ensured? What are the promises of new technologies; in particular the
Blockchain technology? What leads to the adoption and diffusion of new
technologies?

§ From a historical perspective: What are the common features of and
differences between historic and modern sharing models? What can we learn
from the tragedy/comedy of the commons?

§ From a sociological perspective: What role does ownership of platforms
play? How do decentralized forms like platform cooperatives evolve and work?
How are they different from other platforms or from old forms of
cooperatives? What societal effects might they have?

§ From a political science perspective: What are the approaches to sharing
of municipalities and other authorities? How do regulations on these
different levels look like? How do they influence sharing organizations and
established organizations and the interaction between the two?

§ From an economic and economy geography perspective: What are effective
mechanisms for coordinating sharing in digitally mediated two-sided markets?
What are the economic effects of the sharing economy on welfare, competition
etc.? How does the institutional context in different geographical regions
influence the spread and impact of sharing models?

 

Further information on the 5th IWSE:
https://www.i-share-economy.org/5th-IWSE

 

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Dr. Manuel Trenz
Assistant Professor

University of Augsburg | Faculty of Business and Economics

Chair of Information Systems and Management | Prof. Dr. Daniel Veit

 
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