The sharing economy is transforming economies around the world, entering markets for
lodging, ride hailing, home services, and other sectors that previously lacked robust person …

The phenomena that the media and also the specialized literature subsume under the
heading «sharing economy» have undergone strong growth especially since the 2008 …

This essay introduces the subject and interpretative perspective of the monograph
'Unboxing the Sharing Economy', and is divided into three parts. The first part illustrates the …

Across a lifetime, consumers face many transitions in which they need social support.
Difficult transitions are often fraught with challenges, such as transitioning from one social …

Purpose The objective of this contribution is to pinpoint the practices of users' interactions
with sharing economy platforms in Russia, as well as explore the source of motivation to use …

This article looks at time banking-a system of exchange in which people trade services with
one another using time instead of money as currency. Time banking is framed from a social …

The current debate about the sharing economy has rediscovered the importance of
reciprocity as a model of exchange. Time banks, traditionally tools for enhancing an …

The chapter is focused on the issue of Time banking and its transition towards digital time
deals within the sharing economy paradigm. Time banks usually include an important social …

Over the past decade there has been an enormous rise in alternative forms of economic
organization, such as the sharing economy an under-theorized and contradictory empirical …

This article addresses the notion of post-Fordism and the feminization of labour in order to
provide deeper insight into the shifting boundaries of work in the Digital Age and how new …