Effects of the internet on firm business mode: sharing economies
| Authors | Methodology/theory | Main results |
|---|---|---|
| Botsman and Rogers (2010) | Collective consumption and shared resources | Social media and wireless networks can meet customers’ need at an exact moment Collaborative consumption affects consumer behavior and maybe a fully-fledged economy |
| Martin (2016) | Sustainability transitions and framing theory | There are two distinct perspectives of sharing economy Sharing economy may be blocked if it were reframed as an economic opportunity |
| Jing and Sun (2018) | QCA | Sharing of products, sharing of services and restraint mechanisms can cause negative externalities Propose three recommendations to ensure the sound development of the sharing economies |
| Jin (2013) | OLS estimation | Social capital improves the knowledge sharing level of Zhihu users The impact is a dynamic relationship |
| Li and Liang (2016) | Long-tail theory; game theory; and principal-agent theory | Crowdsourcing is an important form of sharing economy Human resource crowdsourcing stimulates the development potential of SMEs |
| Didi policy research institute (2017) | Investigation study | Didi platform boosts employment Most drivers are part-time jobs and the employment of Eastern provinces are the largest |
| He et al. (2018) | Multi-disciplinary research paradigm | Cluster competitiveness affects the economic resource allocation of cluster sharing firms Cluster selection force affects cluster firm economic sharing behavior |
| Authors | Methodology/theory | Main results |
|---|---|---|
| Collective consumption and shared resources | Social media and wireless networks can meet customers’ need at an exact moment | |
| Sustainability transitions and framing theory | There are two distinct perspectives of sharing economy | |
| QCA | Sharing of products, sharing of services and restraint mechanisms can cause negative externalities | |
| OLS estimation | Social capital improves the knowledge sharing level of Zhihu users | |
| Long-tail theory; game theory; and principal-agent theory | Crowdsourcing is an important form of sharing economy | |
| Investigation study | Didi platform boosts employment | |
| Multi-disciplinary research paradigm | Cluster competitiveness affects the economic resource allocation of cluster sharing firms |
Note:
QCA = Qualitative comparative analysis; OLS = ordinary least square