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Sharing Economy: Review of Current Research and Future Directions

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The sharing economy, in which ordinary consumers also act as sellers, is attracting much interest from scholars and practitioners. The rapid growth of this sector of the economy and the emergence of several large brands like Uber and Airbnb raise several interesting questions that need to be researched. We therefore review and summarize the extant research on this sector and suggest several additional directions for future research.

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  1. For more information on the sharing economy, see Botsman and Rogers [4], Gansky [5], Walsh [6], Friedman [7], Ertz et al. [8], Hamari et al. [9], and Telles [10].

  2. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf.

  3. Some early related work (e.g., Zervas et al. 2014) only examines spatial variations in demand for LPs after the entry of SEPs.

  4. http://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-yellow-cab-medallion-prices-falling-further-2016-10

  5. Accessed in February 2017 from http://clients1.ibisworld.ca/reports/us/industry/currentperformance.aspx?entid=1951)

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  1. Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Chakravarthi Narasimhan & Baojun Jiang

  2. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Purushottam Papatla

  3. Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

    Praveen K. Kopalle

  4. Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Paul R. Messinger

  5. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Sridhar Moorthy

  6. Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Davide Proserpio

  7. Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

    Upender Subramanian

  8. Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Chunhua Wu & Ting Zhu

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Narasimhan, C., Papatla, P., Jiang, B. et al. Sharing Economy: Review of Current Research and Future Directions. Cust. Need. and Solut. 5, 93–106 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40547-017-0079-6

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