skip to main content
opinion
Free Access

The sharing economy meets reality

Published:27 December 2017Publication History
Skip Abstract Section

Abstract

Assessing the uncertainties of the business models driving the sharing economy.

References

  1. Hawksworth, J. and Vaughan, R. The Sharing Economy---Sizing the Revenue Opportunity. PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2014.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. Huet, E. Uber's newest tactic: Pay drivers more than they earn. Forbes.com (July 2, 2014).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. Mitra, S. Here are the numbers behind Airbnb's staggering growth. Inc.com (Feb. 27, 2017); http://bit.ly/2hwu1ufGoogle ScholarGoogle Scholar
  4. Quinones, A. and Augustine, A. Technology and trust: How the sharing economy is changing consumer behavior. U.S. Banking Watch (Nov. 19, 2015).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  5. Romero, T. What you don't know about Japan's sharing economy. Disrupting Japan Podcast (Aug. 22, 2017).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  6. Russell, J. and Lunden, I. Uber plans to turn its app into a content marketplace during rides. TechCrunch (Mar. 3, 2017).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  7. Steinmetz, K. See how big the gig economy really is. Time (Jan. 6, 2016).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

Recommendations

Comments

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Sign in

Full Access

  • Published in

    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 1
    January 2018
    110 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/3176926
    Issue’s Table of Contents

    Copyright © 2017 Owner/Author

    Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

    Publisher

    Association for Computing Machinery

    New York, NY, United States

    Publication History

    • Published: 27 December 2017

    Check for updates

    Qualifiers

    • opinion
    • Popular
    • Un-reviewed

PDF Format

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

HTML Format

View this article in HTML Format .

View HTML Format