The empirical generalization of research on access-based services is central in ensuring the
integrity of the domain's findings and for developing knowledge. Study 1 conducts a co …

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 …

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 …

Access-based service usage, or simply “sharing”, is an emerging consumption trend many
companies pursue. As various firms seek to exploit this trend, however, consumers might not …

Sharing systems are increasingly challenging sole ownership as the dominant means of
obtaining product benefits, making up a market estimated at more than US $100 billion …

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 …

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' outlook towards acquisition-based consumption is changing, and the
importance of ownership is fading. Using the stimulus-organism-response framework and a …

Purpose Recently, the sharing economy has attracted considerable attention. This emerging
paradigm is driven by powerful technological forces and has the potential to change the way …

Accessing products instead of owning them is becoming increasingly popular. However,
most marketing knowledge cannot simply be transferred to access. This dissertation …