... the sharing economy, addressing all relevant business models in the context of sharing, pseudo-sharing and collaborative consumption. Originality/value The framework resolves conceptual fragmentation in prior work by introducing an attribute-based logic for cumulative theorizing and linking micro-level...

... that reveals similarities and differences of business models that are associated with collaborative consumption and the sharing economy is missing. This paper develops this framework, which is labelled the collaborative space. Third, as a validation of the new conceptualization, we review past literature. We...

...Samuel Guillemot; Hélène Privat While some collaborative consumption activities are underpinned by commercial logics and dispositions, local collaborative consumer communities are organised around non-commercial values and driven by the desire to organise social relationships differently...

...Hugo Guyader By taking a phenomenological approach on collaborative consumption, this study adds to the understanding of the sharing economy as embedded in both a utilitarian/commercial economic system and a non-market/communal social system. The three styles of collaborative consumption propose...

...Eva Hofmann; Barbara Hartl; Elfriede Penz Purpose Collaborative consumption, such as car sharing, specifically implicates customer-to-customer interaction, which must be regulated by service providers (companies, peers and self-regulating communities), comprising different challenges for business...