Assessing the impact of the sharing economy on the evolution of online commerce
2020 (English)In: ISPIM Conference Proceedings, Manchester: The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) , 2020Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper aims to assess the impact of the sharing economy on ways in which online commerce is evolving. By utilising Social Media Analytics to systematically track the developments of the sharing economy visà-vis online commerce, we analyse an empirical material of 8,755 user-generated content covering a time period of 24 months. Our findings illustrate that the sharing economy fuels platforms focusing attention to sharing commerce but also platforms engaged in social commerce and more general forms of e-commerce. Furthermore, our findings show the sectors in which sharing commerce, social commerce and general forms of e-commerce have become particularly prevalent. The paper contributes to previous literature by providing a systematic empirical contribution on the impact of the sharing economy on the evolution of online commerce and by conceptually explaining why the sharing economy gives rise to a relatively wide plethora of online commerce initiatives.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Manchester: The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) , 2020.
Keywords [en]
Sharing economy; online commerce; sharing commerce; social commerce; e-commerce; social media analytics
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49805ISBN: 978-952-335-465-4 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-49805DiVA, id: diva2:1447631
Conference
ISPIM Connects Bangkok – Partnering for an Innovative Community, Bangkok, Thailand, 1-4 March, 2020
2020-06-262020-06-262020-06-26Bibliographically approved