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Theoretical Foundation of Sharing Economy

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In recent years, with the mature applications of cloud computing and big data, the iterative updating of the Internet and communication technologies, the evolution of the energy revolution and the Internet of Things, the Internet-based platform economy has achieved rapid development, mainly represented by Uber and Airbnb. The success and spread of the sharing economy business model have opened up all material and non-material, tangible and intangible, idle and inefficient resources for sharing, and has presented a full-fledged trend.

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Zhang, Y. (2021). Theoretical Foundation of Sharing Economy. In: Sharing Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3649-3_4

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