If nearly all Airbnb reviews are positive, does that make them meaningless?

J Bridges, C Vásquez - Current Issues in Tourism, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Peer-to-peer business models rely on interpersonal communication for their success. In this
article, we focus on Airbnb–an exemplar of the so-called 'sharing economy'–and more …

Improving the transparency of the sharing economy

M Lecuyer, M Tucker, A Chaintreau - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The idealistic beginnings of the sharing economy made ways to an entrenched battle to win
over the public opinion and for law makers to appreciate its benefits and its risks. The stakes …

How to grow the sharing economy? Create Prosumers!

B Lang, E Botha, J Robertson… - Australasian …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The sharing economy has changed many rules of business. One of those rules is the role of
the firm and–importantly–the role of consumers, who can perform two roles and become …

How Ratings Shape the Supply on Sharing Economy Platforms: A Longitudinal Cohort Study on Listing Survival on Airbnb

AS Kolleck, T Teubner - Information Systems Management, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Customer reviews on sharing economy platforms like Airbnb have been studied extensively.
However, their effectiveness has recently been questioned. We investigate their role …

[PDF][PDF] The Challenges and Opportunities of Sharing Economy-a New Wrapping for Doing Business Online?

J Jiang - PACIS, 2016 - researchgate.net
There is a recent discussion of the impact of sharing economy in the business field—renting,
lending, and sharing goods and service instead of buying them is a new trend that is widely …

Professionalizing sharing platforms for sustainable growth in the hospitality sector: Insights gained through hierarchical linear modeling

E Ndaguba, CV Zyl - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The sharing economy relating to e-hospitality is threatened globally with sanctions and
closure owing to incessant noise and partying complaints, as well as complaints relating to …

Sharing inequalities: Racial discrimination in review acquisition on Airbnb

C Yu, D Margolin - New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Online reviews are found to mitigate racial discrimination in the sharing economy, but we
argue that the chance of getting reviews is unequal for suppliers/workers of difference races …

The emergence of the sharing economy industry: insights from the German carsharing industry

T Vaskelainen - JYU dissertations, 2018 - jyx.jyu.fi
Over the past decade, the concept of the sharing economy—the services that exploit
unutilized assets—has become mainstream. There is a vibrant academic discussion …

The sharing economy and the future of the hotel industry: Transaction cost theory and platform economics

YH Akbar, A Tracogna - International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2018 - Elsevier
The 'sharing economy'is in the process of transforming numerous industries. Among these,
the hotel sector is especially vulnerable to the strategic disruption that sharing platforms …

Sharing for profit: A new business model?

P Kannisto - Annals of Tourism Research, 2017 - Elsevier
This research note draws attention to the sharing economy (SE) business models in tourism.
Tourism is one of the prime markets for peer-to-peer services that allow people to rent beds …