Research Methods of Sharing Economy

Abstract

The research method refers to people discovering new phenomena and new things in the research and analyzing and summarizing puts forward new ideas or new theories. If a worker wants to do good, he must first sharpen his tools. Understanding the research methods of sharing economy is helpful to understand the research objects of sharing economy, starting from the research hypothesis, goal and essence, and deeply exploring the connotation and category of sharing economy, operating mechanism, profit model, and application fields, etc. Due to differences in research objects, perspectives, etc., there is no unified understanding of the classification of research methods and it has been in dynamic development. After fully grasping the research results of sharing economy, a series of research methods that can be used in the subject of sharing economy are summarized and prospected, mainly including normative research methods, empirical research methods, case study methods, marginalization methods and social network analysis. Specific to each research method, the following section will focus on the applications and the method used in sharing economy.