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Understanding Collaborative Consumption
This dynamic book explores the importance of collaborative consumption; which is particularly relevant at a time when the sharing economy has established itself as part of the mainstream market. Nearly 40 expert scholars across the globe go beyond the existing literature to investigate understudied community efforts and spaces, including innovative topics such as hand-me-downs and coworking.
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This dynamic book explores the importance of collaborative consumption; which is particularly relevant at a time when the sharing economy has established itself as part of the mainstream market. Nearly 40 expert scholars across the globe go beyond the existing literature to investigate understudied community efforts and spaces, including innovative topics such as hand-me-downs and coworking.
Championing an interdisciplinary approach, Understanding Collaborative Consumption follows a detailed framework to dissect its role within the sharing economy. Setting out a schema for understanding collaborative consumption and its paradoxes, it analyses the role of the consumer and provides an exploration of grassroots and community efforts. Contributors discuss platformed and branded efforts to extend the reciprocity based market, and conclude with an appraisal of negative externalities and emerging trends.
Providing an in-depth examination of a sector that has in recent years rapidly grown in scope and breadth, this book will be a crucial read for academics and researchers of business management, marketing and sociology. It will also prove valuable to students and scholars interested in economic entrepreneurship, branding and the sharing economy.
Championing an interdisciplinary approach, Understanding Collaborative Consumption follows a detailed framework to dissect its role within the sharing economy. Setting out a schema for understanding collaborative consumption and its paradoxes, it analyses the role of the consumer and provides an exploration of grassroots and community efforts. Contributors discuss platformed and branded efforts to extend the reciprocity based market, and conclude with an appraisal of negative externalities and emerging trends.
Providing an in-depth examination of a sector that has in recent years rapidly grown in scope and breadth, this book will be a crucial read for academics and researchers of business management, marketing and sociology. It will also prove valuable to students and scholars interested in economic entrepreneurship, branding and the sharing economy.
Critical Acclaim
‘It bears repeating that without some form of sharing or collaborative consumption, the human species would very likely not have survived. Together with collaborative production, such as hunting and gathering, barn raising and harvesting, what we have here is the basic formula for human coexistence updated for modern times.’
– Russell Belk, York University, Canada
– Russell Belk, York University, Canada
Contributors
Contributors include: Pia A. Albinsson, Dan Bradbury, Jan-Hendrik Bucher,Lagnajita Chatterjee, Alexander Davidson, Eileen Davenport, Irene Di Bernardo, Amy Greiner Fehl, Meegan Feori-Payne, Mark R. Gleim, Johanna Gollnhofer, Antje Graul, Merlyn A. Griffiths, Yang (Jenny) Guo, Hugo Guyader, Channelle D. James, Bernadette Kamleitner, Chantell LaPan, Stephanie J. Lawson, Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen, Will Low, Hannu Makkonen, Marlys Mason, Debi P. Mishra, Adrienne F. Muldrow, Xiaodong Nie, Elina Närvänen, Lucie K. Ozanne, B. Yasanthi Perera,
Rebeca Perren, Angelo Ranieri, Susanne Ruckelshausen, Birgit Teufer, Aristeidis Theotokis, Marco Tregua, Niklas Woermann
Rebeca Perren, Angelo Ranieri, Susanne Ruckelshausen, Birgit Teufer, Aristeidis Theotokis, Marco Tregua, Niklas Woermann
