Case: unu GmbH: Sharing Is Caring—A Suitable Business Model for E-Scooter in Germany

Beck, Franziska; Krauß, Michael; Weidenbach, Frieder

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95555-1_3

Franziska Beck²,
Michael Krauß² &
Frieder Weidenbach²

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Notes

1.
See unu GmbH (2015a).
2.
See unu GmbH (2015b).
3.
See unu GmbH (2015c).
4.
See Blum (2015).
5.
See unu GmbH (2015a).
6.
See unu GmbH (2015a).
7.
See unu GmbH (2015a).
8.
The climate diagram of Berlin as an example for all German cities (Fig. 7) was taken into account.
9.
See DriveNow GmbH & Co. KG (2015).
10.
See Europcar Group (2015).
11.
See Bundesverband CarSharing (2014).
12.
See Car2Go Deutschland GmbH (2015a).
13.
See Bundesverband CarSharing (2015).
14.
See DriveNow GmbH & Co. KG (2015).
15.
See Car2Go Deutschland GmbH (2015b).
16.
See Car2Go Deutschland GmbH (2015c).
17.
See Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (2015).
18.
See Call a Bike Interaktiv (2015).
19.
See MOBIL (2015).
20.
See Scoot Networks (2015).
21.
See Crunch Base (2015).
22.
See Motit World (2015)/See Enjoy (2015).
23.
See Vox (2015) Höhle der Löwen.
24.
See Scoo.me Smartphone App (2015).
25.
See emco e-Scooter (2015).
26.
See eMio Sharing (2015).
27.
See Jaano (2015).
28.
See Statistisches Bundesamt (2014)/See Inrix (2015)/See Urban Rail (2015)/See Umweltbundesamt (2015).
29.
Average time Germans needed for their way to work in Germany.
30.
See unu GmbH (2015d)/See Welt (2014).
31.
See unu GmbH (2015d).

Abbreviations

app:: Application
B2B:: Business-to-Business
B2C:: Business-to-Consumer
CEO:: Chief Executive Officer
ct.:: cent
CO₂:: Carbon dioxide
CXO:: Chief Officer
€:: Euro
e-scooter:: Electric scooter
h:: hour
JV:: Joint venture
1 k:: One thousand
km:: Kilometers
1 m:: One million
min:: minute
unu:: unu GmbH
$:: US Dollar
V:: Volt

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Beck, F., Krauß, M., Weidenbach, F. (2019). Case: unu GmbH: Sharing Is Caring—A Suitable Business Model for E-Scooter in Germany. In: Friedl, G., Biagosch, A. (eds) Case Studies in Strategic Management. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95555-1_3

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