Theorizing the Sharing Economy

Variety and Trajectories of New Forms of Organizing

Indre Maurer, Johanna Mair, Achim Oberg, Indre Maurer, Johanna Mair, Achim Oberg

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781787561809
• eBook ISBN: 9781787561816
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

The sharing economy is one of the most influential developments of the last decade. The emergence of new forms of organizing it brings with it has affected modern (business) life at multiple levels: Sharing organizations have blurred the distinction between the individual roles of provider, user, and employee; they have introduced organizational practices of coordinating members and communities; and they have sparked societal, political, and economic debates in multiple fields. These dynamics at the individual, organizational, and field level provide an opportunity for organization scholars to take stock of and theorize the sharing economy. 

This volume takes advantage of this opportunity by presenting a collection of empirical and conceptual work that explores the variety and the trajectories of new forms of organizing in the sharing economy, and in doing so builds on, rejuvenates, and refines existing organization theories. 

Together, the chapters included in this volume offer a comprehensive overview of theoretically grounded research that deepens our understanding of new forms of organizing and indicates future avenues for research.

INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Abductive approach, 32

Access economy, 114–118

Access-based consumption, 164

Accommodate-and-hope approach, 224, 229

Ad hoc regulations, 97

Airbnb, 10, 63, 69, 94, 120, 151–152, 164, 170, 177, 197, 216, 219–220, 225

Alternative organizational forms, 226–227

Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), 63

Analysis levels in sharing economy, 7–8

Anti-trust laws, 90

Apartment sharing, 188

Austria’s national government, 194

Austro-fascism, 194

B2B model, 26

B2C model, 26

Ban-and-restore approach, 224, 229

Bazaar governance, 30

BlaBlaCar, 63

Bottom-up theorization, 207

Boundary framing, 205

Brokerage, 9–11

Business model, 26–29, 36

characteristics, 36

of organizations, 42

in pure-market governance, 38

in sharing-economy organization, 26

Buyers, 227

C-Form governance, 30

Capitalist market, 88

Car sharing, 175, 188

Category/categories, 9–10, 13, 164–165

commoners, 10, 164, 167–168, 179–180

dynamics in nascent market spaces, 166

kings, 164–165, 167–168, 179–180

spill-overs, 169

Central media outlets, 155

City Council, 194

Civil society, 230

organizations, 136

regulating by, 225–227

Clan governance, 30–32

Clan-hierarchy hybrid, 27, 45–47

Classic entrepreneurs, 112

Clusters, 140

Co-authorship, 207

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Variety and Trajectories of New Forms of Organizing in the Sharing Economy: A Research Agenda
• Market, Hierarchy, or Clan? Types of Governance in the Sharing Economy
• Shaping Emotional Labor Practices in the Sharing Economy
• An Institutional Logics Perspective on the Gig Economy
• The Sharing Economy as an Emerging and Contested Field – how Classic and Institutional Entrepreneurs Cope With Plural Theoretical Frames
• Is the Sharing Economy a Field? How a Disruptive Field Nurtures Sharing Economy Organizations
• Category Kings and Commoners: Within and Cross-Category SpillOvers in the Sharing Economy
• “Turning The Sharing Economy into a Fair Economy”: Strategic Issue Work in the Vienna City Administration
• Regulating the Sharing Economy: A Field Perspective
• Index