Sharing Economy, So What?
Schedule and location
Aalto University BIZ (Runeberginkatu 14-16, Helsinki), main building, room A-304.
Registration
Speaker
Assistant Professor Aleksi Aaltonen, the Information Systems & Management Group, Warwick Business School, UK.
Organizer
Professor Matti Rossi, Aalto University School of Business, Finland.
Overview
Sharing economy is a hot new trend that seemingly touches upon many important societal,
business and management issues. It offers a good example of an emerging research topic
that academic scholars need to be able deal with or even embrace in their own work.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
1. come to grips with the idea of sharing economy,
2. practice how to shape your ideas into a plan for an academic paper, and to
3. discuss how we tackle constantly emerging topics as researchers.
Due to the nature of the topic, there are no definitive answers to these three issues. Instead,
we will explore them together. The workshop is suitable for you whether you are already
familiar with sharing economy or just curious to learn about it.
Detailed Program
Monday, 3 October
9:30–10:00 Coffee and registration
10:00–10:15 Workshop agenda and introductions
10:15–11:30 “The Disruptive Force of Sharing Economy” lecture
11:30–11:45 Break
11:45–12:15 Groupwork assignment
12:15–13:15 Lunch
13:15–14:15 Groups present their initial ideas
14:15–14:30 Break
14:30–15:45 “Sharing Economy, So What?” lecture
15:45–16:00 Summary of the first day
Tuesday, 4 October
9:00– 9:15 Coffee and kickoff of the second day
9:15–12:00 Groups will work independently on their assignments
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:00 Group presentations (with adequate breaks)
14:00–15:00 Critique
15:00–16:00 Closing remarks
Preworkshop assignment
All participants are expected to complete the following preparatory task before the workshop:
- submit two to four sentence description of your research topic and perspective
(along with the registration to Matti Rossi (matti.rossi@aalto.fi) - read at least two papers of your choice from the reading list.
The assignment supports your group work at the workshop.
Readings on sharing economy
Read two papers of your choice prior to the workshop.
ACADEMIC PAPERS
- Bardhi, F. and Eckhardt, G. M. 2012. Accessbased consumption: the case of car sharing,
Journal of Consumer Research, 39(4), pp. 881898. - Belk, R. 2010. Sharing, Journal of Consumer Research, 36(5), pp. 715734.
- Belk, R. 2014. You are what you can access: sharing and collaborative consumption online,
Journal of Business Research, 67(8), pp. 15951600. - Benkler, Y. 2004. Sharing nicely: on shareable goods and the emergence of sharing as a
modality of economic production, Yale Law Journal, 114(2), pp. 273358. - Benkler, Y. 2006. The wealth of networks. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2006.
- Bodle, R. 2011. Regimes of sharing, Information, Communication & Society, 14, pp.
320337. - Botsman, R. 2014. Sharing's not just for startups, Harvard Business Review, 92(9), pp.
2325. - Cohen, M. and Sundararajan, A. 2015. Selfregulation and innovation in the peertopeer
sharing economy, University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue, 82: 116. - Cusumano, M. A. 2014. How traditional firms must compete in the sharing economy,
Communications of the ACM, 58, pp. 3234. - Firnkorn, J. and Müller, M. 2012. Selling mobility instead of cars: New business strategies
of automakers and the impact on private vehicle holding, Business Strategy and the
Environment, 21, pp. 264280. - Giesler, M. 2006. Consumer gift systems, Journal of Consumer Research, 33(2), pp.
283290. - Grassmuck, V. 2012. The sharing turn: why we are generally nice and have a good chance
to cooperate our way out of the mess we have gotten ourselves into. In: Wolfgang Sützl,
Felix Stalder, Ronald Maier, Theo Hug (Eds.): Cultures and Ethics of Sharing / Kulturen und
Ethiken des Teilens, Innsbruck University Press. Available at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2295622 - Hamari, J., Sjöklint, M. and Ukkonen, A. 2015. The sharing economy: why people
participate in collaborative consumption, Journal of the Association for Information Science
and Technology. - John, N. A. 2013. The social logics of sharing, The Communication Review, 16(3), pp.
113131. - Martin, C. J. 2016. The sharing economy: a pathway to sustainability or a nightmarish form
of neoliberal capitalism?, Ecological Economics, 121, pp. 149159. - Matzler, K., Veider, V. and Kathan, W. 2015. Adapting to the sharing economy, MIT Sloan
Management Review, 56(2), pp. 7077. - Molz, J. G. 2013. Social networking technologies and the moral economy of alternative
tourism: the case of couchsurfing.org, Annals of Tourism Research, 43, pp. 210230. - Schöpf, S. The commodification of the couch: A dialectical analysis of hospitality exchange
platforms, tripleC, 13(1). Available at:
http://www.triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/480/676 - Weber, T. A. 2014. Intermediation in a sharing economy: insurance, moral hazard, and rent
extraction, Journal of Management Information Systems, 31(3), pp. 3571. - Wittel, A. 2011. Qualities of sharing and their transformations in the digital age, International
Review of Information Ethics, 15(9), pp. 38.
OTHER TEXTS
- Botsman, R., and Rogers, R. 2010. What’s mine is yours − the rise of collaborative
consumption. New York: Harper Collins. - Carew, R., and Wakabayashi, D. 2016. Apple invests $1 billion in Didi, Uber’s rival in
China, in: The Wall Street Journal. - Chase, R. 2015. Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative
Economy and Reinventing Capitalism. Perseus Books: Philadelphia, PA. - Guardian, T. 2016. Berlin's government legislates against Airbnb, The Guardian.
- Harsono, H. 2016. Embracing the sharing economy for growth in China, in: Crunch Network.
- MacMillan, D. and Silverman, R. E. 2016. Uber, Lyft shut down in Austin over fingerprint
vote. - Morozov, E. 2013. The ‘sharing economy’ undermines workers’ rights. Available at:
https://evgenymorozov.tumblr.com/post/64038831400/thesharingeconomyundermineswor
kersrights - Owyang, J. 2015. Large companies ramp up adoption in the collaborative economy," in:
Web Strategist. - Owyang, J., Samuel, A. and Grenville, A. 2014. Sharing is the new buying. Available at:
http://www.webstrategist.com/blog/2014/03/03/reportsharingisthenewbuyingwinningint
hecollaborativeeconomy - PriceWatershouseCoopers, 2013. The Sharing Economy: Sizing the Revenue
Opportunity. Available at:
http://www.pwc.co.uk/issues/megatrends/collisions/sharingeconomy/thesharingeconomysi
zingtherevenueopportunity.html - Slee, T. 2016. What's yours is mine: against the sharing economy. OR Books.
- Sundararajan, A. 2016. The sharing economy. The end of employment and the rise of
crowdbased capitalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. - Sundararajan, A. 2016. What Uber and Lyft’s Austin exit says about the future of
regulation," in: Fortune.
Credit points
Doctoral students participating in the seminar can obtain 2 credit points. This requires participating on all of the days and completing the assignment.
Registration fee
This seminar is free-of-charge for Inforte.fi member organization's staff and their PhD students. For others the participation fee is 400 €. The participation fee includes access to the event and the event materials. Lunch and dinner are not included.