Access-based services (ABS)—in which consumers do not physically own material goods
but gain access to services by registering with the provider—have risen in popularity as an …

Consumers are increasingly attracted to the idea of accessing products instead of owning
them. This shift is important to businesses as they pursue the growing market of consumers …

Services that let customers access goods, such as car-sharing, are gaining increasing
relevance as an alternative to ownership. These access-based services allow consumers to …

Access-based services (ABS), which grant customers limited access to goods without any
transfer of ownership, are unique technology-based service innovations requiring the …

Although access-based services (ABS) offer many benefits, convincing consumers to use
these service innovations remains challenging. Research suggests that contamination …

Consumer decision-making is a focal interest of consumer research and will remain
important as marketplace trends, such as the growing prevalence of access-based …

Within the rising access economy, products that were traditionally owned are now accessed,
shared, rented or swapped. A recent research has shown that access-based consumption …

Access-based consumption, defined as transactions that can be market mediated but where
no transfer of ownership takes place, is becoming increasingly popular, yet it is not well …

Purpose This study aims to test) commercial sharing utility model of access-based
consumption use in three different contexts: car-sharing, room-sharing and household …

The services marketing literature has traditionally characterized intangibility as the most
critical distinction between services and goods, but in practice service production and …