articleJournal of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyJun 2, 2015Closed access

The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption

JHJuho HamariMSMimmi SjöklintAUAntti Ukkonen

Tampere University · Tampere University · +3 more institutions

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Abstract

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) have enabled the rise of so‐called “Collaborative Consumption” (CC): the peer‐to‐peer‐based activity of obtaining, giving, or sharing the access to goods and services, coordinated through community‐based online services . CC has been expected to alleviate societal problems such as hyper‐consumption, pollution, and poverty by lowering the cost of economic coordination within communities. However, beyond anecdotal evidence, there is a dearth of understanding why people participate in CC . Therefore, in this article we investigate people's motivations to participate in CC . The study employs survey data ( N = 168) gathered from people registered onto a CC site.…

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  • Sharing economy
  • Consumption (sociology)
  • Business
  • Computer science
  • World Wide Web
  • Sociology
  • Social science
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